| Title | 2 CAFFE: Engaging Faculty in Parallel Mentoring to Prepare Doctoral Students for Academic Careers |
| Publication Type | Poster |
| Authors | Nunez AA, Jackson JH, Klomparens K, Campa III H, Stoddart J |
| Year of Publication | 2011 |
| Abstract | Effective faculty mentoring of graduate students can help ensure that Ph.D. graduates are successful in the academic job market and as future faculty. The MSU Center for Academic and Future Faculty Excellence (CAFFE) (http://grad.msu.edu/caffe/) is designed to foster effective mentoring. CAFFE is an NSF Innovation through Institutional Integration (I3) grant linking CIRTL, as well as other NSF-funded initiatives together through Graduate School activities. The CAFFE provides a diverse set of activities or a “Menu” to help prepare graduate students and post-docs for successful academic careers. The CAFFE Menu covers four areas: Expectations of Academic Institutions, Faculty Knowledge Essentials, Academic Work Skills and Responsibilities, and Professional Attitudes/Ethics. The Menu links with other MSU Graduate School professional development programs which provide a diversity of career and professional development opportunities (academic and nonacademic) that graduate students and post-docs can use to plan their professional development. The CAFFE Menu allows individuals, working with their faculty mentors, to develop a curriculum of professional development that complements discipline-specific preparation. This parallel mentoring, at all stages of academic development, is a core feature of the CAFFE. One CAFFE partner is BEACON (Bio/computational Evolution in Action CONsortium; http://special.news.msu.edu/beacon/), an MSU NSF-funded Science and Technology Center. Examples of individual parallel mentoring plans will be presented on the poster. |
| Keywords | Forum 2011 poster |
| Conference Name | CIRTL Forum 2011: Teaching, Learning and Research: Preparation of the Nation’s Future Faculty |
| Conference Date | October 10th & 11th, 2011 |
| Conference URL | http://www.cirtl.net/forum2011 |
| Conference Location | Madison, WI |
