Manuela Veloso
The goal of the CAPP-R workshop is to help and advise associate professors at research colleges and universities get promoted to full professors. In addition, the workshop aims to build a cohort of senior women in academia and industry who can provide each other with an information network and mutual support.
Speakers. The Distinguished Researchers who will speak at
CAPP-R are the following:
- Claire Cardie, Cornell University
- Claire Mathieu, Brown University
- Kathryn McKinley, University of Texas, Austin
- Padma Raghavan, Pennsylvania State University
- Elke Rudensteiner, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Workshop Structure.
The CAPP-R focuses on helping associate professors at research colleges and universities get promoted to full professors. Some sessions will be divided into tracks with material of particular relevance to each of the three groups. Other sessions of general relevance will bring all participants together. Sessions specific to the CAPP-R track are likely to include:
- Promotion to Full Professor, which will address differences in expectations, processes, and guidelines between promotion to associate professor and promotion to full professor. Differences between institutions will also be discussed. Panelists will describe their own path, discuss how to plan activities relevant and beneficial towards promotion, and how to deal with challenges along the road and strategies for handling them.
- Managing Opportunities, which will discuss opportunities that arise in research institutions and how to best take advantage of them. These opportunities include pursuing an administrative position, transitioning to industry or government (and back again), and relocating to a different institution. It will discuss advantages and disadvantages, how to pursue and prepare for a change in position, deciding what to do when career opportunities arise, and how to ensure the position is to ones benefit. The panelists will highlight opportunities not to miss as well as opportunities to consider with caution. Panelists will describe choices they have made and strategies for positioning oneself for potential opportunities and how to deal with opportunities that you might not have anticipated.
- Sabbaticals and Remote Collaborations, which will address how to effectively plan and execute a sabbatical or leave and how to start and carry out successful remote collaborations. Different strategies for managing successful collaborations will be discussed. Overall focus will be on how these activities can and should promote your own career.
Each such session will be lead by senior women from research labs with relevant experiences and will consist of a formal presentation and then an open discussion.
Plenary topics are likely to include panels on Time Management/Balancing Everything, Volunteerism, and Research Collaboration, each of which will include a representative from each of the three tracks. As with the track panels, each will include a formal presentation and an open discussion.
Optional CV Review. For interested participants, we will provide an opportunity for one-on-one CV review meetings with the Distinguished Professors and Researchers who are the speakers at the workshop.
Coaching Session. In addition to the above content, Nancy Houfek will lead a session on effective communication. Nancy, who serves as Head of Voice and Speech at the American Repertory Theatre/Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University, has served as a consultant on communication throughout the United States since 1978. Her portion of the workshop addresses the fact that many accomplished professional women feel themselves to be less effective than they wish when leading or participating in discussions, meetings, or group negotiations.
They struggle with feeling unheard, with reactive rather than strategic behaviors, with physical stress and tension, and with ineffective speaking voices. The keys to success in such arenas are both strategic and physical: how one presents oneself and one's ideas is key to their acceptance. This session, which combines theatre training and leadership development in an interactive format that encourages highly personal learning, is designed to enhance women's abilities and confidence in such situations. It will teach participants techniques used in theatre and leadership programs to improve performance and will coach participants in strategic management of discussions and negotiations.