CRA for Faculty

This page contains information on:

- Career Building
- Departmental Oversight
- Getting Involved

Career Building

• CRA's Job Listing is one of the best places to find and post positions that are available for Computer Scientists, Computer Engineers, and Computer Researchers.
• The Academic Careers & Effective Teaching Workshop aids graduate students and junior faculty as they choose or begin their careers. The most recent one was held February 25-26, 2008. The next will be held in February 2010, in Washington, DC.
• CRA and CRA's Women's Committee have sponsored a series of Career Mentoring Workshops for men and women starting academic careers. You can view slides and transcripts from some of the more recent workshops.
• The CRA-Women Workshop, Managing the Academic Career for Faculty Women at Undergraduate Computer Science and Engineering Institutions, was held at the 2007 SIGCSE Symposium. The goal of the workshop was to provide critical mentoring information for women at all career levels in undergraduate teaching.
• CRA's Best Practices Memo on Evaluating Computer Scientists and Engineers for Promotion and Tenure has information you and your department should know.
• CRA-W's Cohort of Associate Professors Project (CAPP): aims to increase the percentage of Computer Science and Engineering women faculty with the rank of full professor by forming and mentoring a cohort of women from the associate professor ranks.
• Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference. The conference is designed to bring the research and career interests of women in computing to the forefront. Presenters are leaders in their respective fields, representing industrial, academic and government communities. Leading researchers present their current work, while special sessions focus on the role of women in today's technology fields. CRA, the founding organization, is now a co-sponsor of this event.
• "Good Service: A Surprising Secret to Academic Success," by David Patterson.
  

Departmental Oversight

• Attend the Workshop for New Department Chairs at the next CRA Conference at Snowbird (July 2010). The most recent was held July 2008 (see its agenda).
• A set of slides on "Why choose a Ph.D. in CS?" (440 KB PDF). Please feel free to use these.
• Contact information for CS/CE chairs can be had from CRA's Forsythe List of North American departments that grant Ph.D.s in fields related to computing research.
• The Taulbee Survey provides information on the enrollment, production, and employment of Ph.D.s in CS & CE and in providing salary and demographic data for faculty in CS & CE.
• CRA Best Practices Reports/Memos provide advice on
  • Promotion and Tenure of Interdisciplinary Faculty
  • Workshop Report on Broadening Participation
  • Recruitment and Retention of Faculty in Computer Science and Engineering (523 KB PDF)
  • Recruitment and Retention of Women Graduate Students (PDF)
  • Recruitment and Retention of Underrepresented Minority Graduate Students (PDF)
  • Best Practices Memo: University-Industry Sponsored Research Agreements
  • Commercialization Oversight
  • Evaluating Computer Scientists and Engineers for Promotion and Tenure
• Information on CRA activities to expand the participation of underrepresented groups in computing research can be found on the CRA-Women and CDC websites.

Getting Involved

• Stay abreast of issues facing the research community by signing up for Computing Research News and CRA's electronic bulletin, as well as by viewing CRA's research policy blog.
• Visit CRA's Government Affairs pages and join the Computing Research Advocacy Network, an electronic mailing list that delivers timely information about key advocacy opportunities. Each alert includes summary and background information, recommended actions, talking points, and contact information -- everything you need to make your voice heard in Washington. Policy-related news also is posted on the CRA research policy blog.
• Nominate faculty for the
  • CRA A. Nico Habermann Award for outstanding contributions to aiding members of underrepresented groups within the computing research community; or the
  • CRA Distinguished Service Award for outstanding service to the computing research community.
• Apply to host the CRA-W Distinguished Lecture Series which sends faculty and industry researchers to campuses to encourage women and minorities to attend graduate school.
• Mentor students through the
  • Distributed Mentor Project (DMP) which matches outstanding female undergraduates with female mentors for a summer of research at the mentor's institution (see also the Canadian DMP program); or the
  • Collaborative Research Experience for Undergraduates (CREU) program which provides research experiences for groups of undergraduates from underrepresented groups during the academic year at their home institutions.
• Nominate undergraduates who show outstanding research potential for the CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Award.
• Attend and/or encourage others to attend the Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference and Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.
• Participate in the Computing Community Consortium: the CCC seeks to mobilize the computing research community to identify major research opportunities for the field.
• Volunteer to serve on a CRA Committee by contacting CRA's Executive Director (Andrew Bernat, abernat [at] cra.org).
• Make sure that your department is a member of CRA.

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