PFF Exploratory Phase (First Year) Seminars
Fall 2008
Introduction and Orientation Seminar
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the PFF course Syllabus and Course Requirements
- Gain a better understanding of the benefits of the Exploratory Phase
- Know the names and faces of your group members for the breakfast series
Structure and Organization of the Academy
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the Carnegie classification of colleges and universities
- Understand the hierarchical structure of universities and colleges
- Develop an understanding of the different faculty roles within differing institutions
- Meet PFF students with differing undergraduate experiences
Scholarship, Research & Creative Activity (SRCA)
Learning Objectives:
- Identify how to be productive in the academy
- Understand what the standard for productivity is in the academy and your career field
- Know at least 3 strategies for increasing your productivity in the academy
- Identify specific strategies and techniques used by the speakers to be successful in scholarship, research and creative activities
- Understand the significance of polishing your articles for publication
- Understand how to set priorities
- Understand how to establish research colleagues and collaborators
Grant Writing
Learning Objectives:
- Identify specific techniques used by the speakers that aid in grant writing success
- Understand the importance of starting early, getting proof readers etc.
- Understand how to make a grant "readable"
- Identify which granting institutions best suit specific grant writing concepts
- Develop an understanding of who will be reviewing your grant
- Identify grant writing "do's" and "don'ts"
- Understand the types of tasks ASU's Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Affairs/Office of Research and Sponsored Projects performs and know how to identify similar offices in differing academic institutions
New Faculty Perspectives on the Job Search and Life in the First Year
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the process of preparing for the academic job search
- Gain first hand knowledge related to the hiring experience
- Discuss questions and concerns related to the hiring process and first year academic experience with newly hired PFF students
- Understand how teaching, research, and service vary in differing institutions
- Understand the rigors of the first year in academia
- Understand how to go about developing professional relationships in your new appointment
- Understand how to locate specific departments (such as CLTE and ORSPA) on different campuses
Strategies for Effective Teaching
Learning Objectives:
- Identify specific teaching pedagogies used by the speakers (i.e.: Instructional methodology, instructional theory, technology in teaching etc.)
- Reflect on teaching styles and which one best suits you as in instructor
- Develop a list of "do's" and "don'ts" related to teaching
- Understand the significance of a good course syllabus
Spring 2009
Search Committee Perspectives on the Hiring Process
Learning Objectives:
- Learn the steps in an academic hiring process
- Understand what department chairs and search committees are looking for in a job candidate
- Identify what an outstanding applicant looks like from a dean's or department chair's perspective
- Know what to do and what not to do during the hiring process
- Learn from the mistakes others have made during the hiring process
Video Campus Visit (2)
Learning Objectives:
- Gain knowledge of the requirements needed to work at this institution and its peer institutions
- Gain knowledge of the workload with respect to research, teaching, and service that is required at this institutions and its peer institutions
- Gain an understanding of how certain institutional factors affect the hiring process (e.g. size of the university, private vs. state, university mission)
- Gain an understanding of the culture at this institution
Promotion and Tenure
Learning Objectives:
- Know the different levels of review in the promotion and tenure process and understand who determines whether or not a person receives promotion and tenure status
- Know the critical documents and information necessary for research, teaching and service that must be included in a promotion and tenure packet (i.e. personal statements, external letters, etc.)
- Understand the importance of forming relationships with people in your field, but outside your institution
- Understand what it takes to achieve promotions and tenure status within academia
- Know what questions to ask about the promotion and tenure process when you are in your first academic position
Work-Life Balance
Learning Objectives:
- Learn options for achieving balance in academia that will fit your life
- Develop strategies for balance in your own life
- Understand how to be a successful faculty member and maintain a life
