CIRTL Forum 2008 Will Explore Future Faculty Development
Graduate students in science, technology, engineering and math experience a massive shift in their lives and responsibilities when they become new faculty. The CIRTL Forum 2008, Aligning the Preparation of Graduate Students for Early STEM Faculty Careers, will be an opportunity for diverse stakeholders to gather and discuss how to best prepare graduate students for their future roles as professors. The Forum will take place in Madison, WI on June 16-17. Read more...

Program Transforms Science Ph.D. Experience

Over 60 percent of the science and math graduate students who were surveyed during an intensive teaching and learning program at Texas A&M University reported that the program made them better scientists. The graduate students achieved greater understanding of study design, and strengthened their research skills by applying them in the classroom. “The most surprising and significant result… was the self-reported data stating that the graduate students felt that [the program] improved their scientific or engineering research,” commented geology and geophysics professor and CIRTL leader Bruce Herbert. Read more...

Ask a CIRTL Graduate Student!

Q: How do you think your involvement with CIRTL may benefit your career?
Latonja Taylor, a graduate student in the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder: First, it has given me the educational values to learn about. Second, it has allowed me to network and build bridges between faculty, students, and administrators at the University. Third, in the future, I would like to have an impact on higher education reform in technology education.

News from the Field

CONFERENCE

Mathematical Association of America Professional Enhancement Program -

The Mathematical Association of America is offering a professional development workshop for people who are interested in starting Emerging Scholars Programs (ESPs). ESPs help students from minority groups succeed in calculus and other courses. Based on a highly successful model of collaborative problem-solving, the programs improve grades, passing rates and persistence. The workshop will be in Washington, DC from July 17-19; the cost for early registration (before June 5) is $325. For more information, please visit the MAA Web site. Natasha Speer (nmspeer at msu.edu), a CIRTL leader, is a co-organizer of the event.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning -

The International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning invites contributions to its July 2008 issue. Submissions are due on May 15. To view a sample issue of the journal, visit the Web site of the January 2008 issue. For more information on submitting articles, contact the editor, Alan Altany (aaltany at georgiasouthern.edu).

To ask questions or to make contributions, contact Katherine Friedrich (newsletter at cirtl.net).

Next newsletter: June, 2008
Deadline for announcements and contributions: May 23, 2008

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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0227592.
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