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Teaching-as-Research Presentation Session, April 16

Submitted by RobinGreenler on Mon, 04/15/2013 - 12:15pm

Come hear brief presentations from CIRTL graduate students who have been doing Teaching-as-Research projects this year.  Tuesday April 16 at 1-2 ET/12-1 CT/11-12 MT/10-11 PT students from across the CIRTL Network will present an overview of their research projects--the main research questions, project design and methods, and a summary of their results and implications.  Anyone interested in seeing the TAR work being done in the CIRTL Network this year is welcome to attend.  We hope to have some time for questions and discussion of the projects.

To join go to http://www.cirtl.net/blackboard and select "Enter Blackboard Collaborate Room 1."  The session is open to all.

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Take Aways Form Campa's Coffee Hour on Work-Life Balance

Submitted by RobinGreenler on Mon, 03/04/2013 - 3:09pm

For the last two weeks, Rique Campa has recorded his day’s activities and reflected on how he spends his time, makes time management decisions, and how it all works in a blog  at http://www.cirtl.net/learningcommunities/academiccareer.  This blog provided a rare glimpse into the professional and personal daily life of a tenured faculty member.  Campa drew on this experience in his recent Coffee Hour, “Developing a work-life balance for sustaining a productive career and your sanity.”  In the session an Read More »

Work-Life Balance: Wrapping up the blogs and bringing it home at tomorrow's CIRTL Coffee Hour

Submitted by RobinGreenler on Tue, 02/26/2013 - 3:37pm

Have you been following MSU faculty Rique Camp's blog reflections on how he maintains a healthy personal and professional life balance.  As an experiemnt, Campa has, over the last two weeks, recorded each day's time management choices, personal/professional priorities, considerations of what worked, and how he juggled it all.  It is a glimpse into the life a a successful tenured faculty member and Associate Dean as well as father, husband, runner and indivudal striving for a rich life with balance. Read More »

Take-away messages from CIRTL's Alternative Academic Careers Coffee Hour

Submitted by RobinGreenler on Wed, 01/30/2013 - 12:16pm

On January 24, The CIRTL Coffee Hour featured a panel presentation and discussion on Alternative Academic Careers.  Cornell Chemistry Librarian, Sue Cardinal started off with four take-away points:  know yourself, build your skills, take a leap of faith, and change when you need to.  Sue emphasized the need to consider what you like to do, are good at and are attracted to, and to look broadly at what opportunities might match those skills.  And for those not yet on the job market, consider what skills you want to build up, what you enjoy and what experiences you want to Read More »

CIRTL Publication in Change Magazine

Submitted by RobinGreenler on Wed, 12/19/2012 - 4:18pm

An article providing a coprehensive history, overview, and conceptual framework for the CIRTLprogram was recently published in Change magazine (http://www.changemag.org/). The article, Advancing STEM Undergraduate Learning: Preparing the Nations Future Faculty was written Christine Pfund, Robert Mathieu, Ann Austin, Mark Connolly, Brian Manske and Katie Moore. 

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CIRTL Events: Research Ethics, Mentoring and University Politics

Submitted by RobinGreenler on Tue, 11/27/2012 - 5:47pm

CIRTL has three upcoming cross-Network events! Please join us:

Thursday Nov 29, 2012, 12-1pm CT for a Coffee Hour discussion on "University politics: Navigating the rules and expectations," with Robert A. Linsenmeier of Northwestern University and Jon Sticklen of Michigan State University. For more info http://www.cirtl.net/coffeehour

Friday, Nov 30, 2012, 1-2pm CT for a CIRTLCast presentation on "Mentoring Graduate Students and Postdocs" with  Laura Harrington, Christine Holmes, and Colleen McLinn all from Cornell University.  For more info http://www.cirtl.net/cirtlcasts

Tuesday Dec 4, 2012, 1-2pm CT for a CIRTLCast presentation on "Research Ethics" with  Nancy Abney, Jeff Engler, and Mitzy Erdmann all from University of Alabama at Birmingham.  For more info http://www.cirtl.net/cirtlcasts

Be sure to carve out some time to hear from experts around the Network on timely topics in STEM teaching and learning. Read More »

Monday October 22, TAR Capstone Presentation on Successful TAR Projects

Submitted by RobinGreenler on Mon, 10/22/2012 - 10:14am

On Monday October 22, the TAR Capstone Seminar will feature two fellow TAR  "graduates" to talk about their projects, the TAR experience, and long term impacts on their outlook in the academy.  Come hear:

LeighAnn Jordan, Michigan State University FAST Fellow, graduate student in Department of Chemistry
Paul Sell,  UW Madison Delta program, graduate student in Astronomy Department.

Today at 12-1PM ET/11-12PM CT/10-11AM MT/9-10AM PT. To join, click here.  For more information go to our TAR Learning Community page at http://www.cirtl.net/learningcommunities/tar Read More »

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