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CRA-W Advanced Career Mentoring Workshop (CAPP) Agenda
November 14-15, 2008, Santa Fe, New Mexico
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Friday, November 14
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7:30-8:00—Registration - Breezeway
7:30-8:30— Breakfast - Tesuque Ballroom
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8:30-9:00—Welcome and Introductions - Zuni Ballroom
Slides (PPT)
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Overview of the workshop, goals, organization.
Speakers:
Kathleen Fisher, AT&T Research Labs CAPP-L Director
Joan Francioni, Winona State University CAPP-E Director
Susanne Hambrusch, Purdue University CAPP-R Director
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9:00-10:00—Parallel Sessions:
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CAPP-E: Promotion to Full Professor - Acoma North
Session addresses differences in expectations, processes, and guidelines between promotion to
associate professor and promotion to full professor. Planning activities now toward promotion
will be stressed. Challenges along the road to promotion that one may face - and strategies for
handling them - will be discussed. Opportunities and options for funding will be outlined.
Speakers:
Tims, Baldwin-Wallace College
Susan Williams, Georgia Southern University
Slides (PPT)
CAPP-R: Promotion to Full Professor -Chaco West (lower level)
This session 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.
Speakers:
Nancy Amato, Texas A&M University
Elizabeth Bradley, University of Colorado, Boulder
Slides (PPT)
CAPP-L: Promotion to the Top of the Technical Ladder - Acoma South
This panel will address topics such as the factors that go into promotion decisions (company
contributions, publications, patents, leadership activities, etc.), how these factors are weighted,
how one learns what these factors are, how to avoid/cope with layoffs, how to get support for
innovative rather than incremental research, and how to be a technical leader (managing others
without having reporting authority, etc), how to get necessary resources.
Speakers:
Laura Haas, IBM Almaden Research Center
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Cynthia A. Phillips, Sandia National Labs
Slides (PPT)
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10:00-10:30—Break - Breezeway
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10:30-11:30—Panel Session: Time Management/Balancing Everything - Zuni Ballroom
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As you have become more senior, do you seem to have even less time to get everything done?
Are you getting too many requests to serve on committees and to be a good citizen and role
model? Are you asked to take on supervisory responsibilities? Is it a matter of time
management and finding the right balance or learning to say no? We will hear from three
speakers who will present their experience and address management aspects arising for more
senior researchers, including effective delegation, supervision, and negotiation.
Speakers:
Laura Haas, IBM Almaden Research Center
Mary Jane Irwin, Pennsylvania State University
Ellen Walker, Hiram College
Slides (PPT)
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11:30-1:00—Lunch - Tesuque Ballroom
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1:00-2:00—Parallel Sessions:
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CAPP-E: Managing Opportunities - Acoma North
Session discusses different career paths - the research/teaching track, the administration track,
transitioning to industry or government (and back again) - and how to plan accordingly. The
advantages and disadvantages of the different paths, and at different universities, will be
discussed. Deciding what to do when career opportunities arise and how to ensure the position
is to your benefit will be discussed. Some opportunities come about because of planning and
some happen spontaneously; included will be strategies for positioning yourself for potential
opportunities and how to deal with opportunities that you might not have anticipated. The real
barriers to taking advantage of career opportunities will also be discussed.
Speakers
Andrea Danyluk, Williams College
Carol Shilepsky, Wells College
Slides (PPT)
CAPP-R: Managing Opportunities -Chaco West (lower level)
This session 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.
Speakers
Lori Clarke, University Massachusetts Slides (PPT)
Maja Matarié, University of Southern California Slides (PDF)
CAPP-L: Entering Management and Thriving - Acoma South
This panel will focus on how to think about deciding whether to enter management, what
factors go into hiring managers, what such positions involve, whether there are training or
mentoring programs available to prepare for such a transition, how to cope with becoming a
manager, and how higher-level management positions differ from first-line management
positions.
Speakers
Dona L. Crawford, Lawrence Livermore National Labs
Mary Fernández, AT&T Research Labs
Slides (PPT)
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2:00-2:30—Break - Breezeway
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2:30-3:30—Parallel Sessions:
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CAPP-E: Getting What You Need - Acoma North
In some cases, associate professors need to have access to resources that are difficult for them
to get, including a Ph.D., training courses, collaborations, equipment, time for research,
funding, etc. This session will discuss possible strategies for obtaining the resources, including
time.
Speakers:
Sue Fitzgerald, Metropolitan State College
Renee McCauley, College of Charleston
Ellen Walker, Hiram College
Slides (PPT)
CAPP-R: Sabbatical and Remote Collaborations - Chaco West (lower level)
This session 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.
Speakers:
Laura Dillon, Michigan State University
Vijaya Ramachandran, University of Texas, Austin
Slides (PDF)
CAPP-L: Managing Opportunities - Acoma South
Jobs in research labs offer a huge variety of opportunities with the concomitant challenge of
managing them. This panel will discuss some of these opportunities and challenges, such as:
switching into development organizations and back, transferring technology into practice,
interacting with business units and funding agents, collaborating with researchers outside of
one's home institution, leveraging internal and external service opportunities to build a
network of contacts, and maintaining external visibility to increase job security/employability.
Speakers:
Deb Agarwal, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Slides (PPT)
Susan Landau, Sun Microsystems Labs
Kristin Lauter, Microsoft Research
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3:30-4:00—Break - Breezeway
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4:00-5:45—One-on-One Curricula Vitae Reviews - Chaco West (lower level), Acoma North and South
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6:00-6:30—Reception - Tesuque Ballroom
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Introduction of Distinguished Professors and CAPP attendees.
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6:30-8:30—Dinner - Zuni Ballroom
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Saturday, November 15:
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7:30-8:30— Breakfast - Tesuque Ballroom
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8:30-9:45—Parallel Session and Workshop (choose one):
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Workshop: Strong Women/Strategic Performance - Chaco West (lower level)
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 workshop, 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.
Speaker:
Nancy Houfek, Harvard University
Panel Session: Volunteerism - Acoma Ballroom
This session will present opportunities for volunteer activities that can help to advance your
career and broaden your professional network, both within your own university and within the
profession. Also discussed will be strategies for gaining recognition for your accomplishments
and for helping others to be recognized.
Speakers:
Tracy Camp, Colorado School of Mines
Dona L. Crawford, Lawrence Livermore National Labs
Renee McCauley, College of Charleston
Slides
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9:45-10:15—Break - Breezeway
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10:30—Parallel Session and Workshop (choose one):
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Workshop: Strong Women/Strategic Performance (repeated) - Chaco West (lower level)
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 workshop, 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.
Speaker: Nancy Houfek, Harvard University
Panel Session: Research Collaboration -Acoma Ballroom
Great results often come about as a result of diverse perspectives and skills coming together.
In this panel, we will talk about collaborations across types of institutions: between academics
in research universities and teaching colleges and research labs. What are the benefits and
costs of such collaborations? How do they get started? How are they fostered? What resources
are available for summer/sabbatical collaborations? What IP issues are there?
Speakers:
Mary Fernández, AT&T Research Labs
Susan Williams, Georgia Southern University
Susanne Hambrusch, Purdue University
Slides (PPT)
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11:30-1:00—Lunch, Wrap-up and Evaluation - Tesuque Ballroom
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