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- Promotion and tenure
Panel discussion presented by Jennifer West and Kathy Matthews at the 2011 NSF ADVANCE Workshop: Negotiating the Ideal Faculty Position, A Workshop for Underrepresented PhDs and Postdocs in Science, Engineering and Psychology September 18-20, 2010
Goals
- Institution
- Tenure is a life-long commitment by the university to you
- Successful faculty – innovators, leaders, producers
- Research objectives need to align with institutional directions
- You
- Faculty position that meets your own research and career objectives
- Member of functional, innovative and forward-looking department and institution
- Security offered by tenure
What can i do now?
Think about your steps all along the way
- Consistently evaluate your own progress
- Goals
- Mechanisms to get there
- Ways to learn from others and engage them
- Keep data on all your activities
- Ask for feedback
- Grant writing
- Papers
- Teaching
- Research program organization and development
This process is the accumulation of years of effort
THINK AHEAD!!
Understand the general process
- Learn about the promotion and tenure process at your institution
- Ask about the process at every stage if you have questions
- Request a copy of the policy
- Be sure when you are interviewing that the policy is consistent with your personal goals
- Understand the balance of teaching, research, and service that the institution AND the department will expect
- Understand the audience(s) for the materials
General process — the dossier
Dossier
- Summary of your independent career at institution
- Information on all aspects of your career
- Research summary (publications, grants, citations, awards)
- Teaching summary (courses, evaluations, awards)
- Service summary (activities, awards)
- Inside reviews/letters
- Outside letters –
very important
- Writers identified by department
- Also usually writers identified by individual
Dossier components
- CV as summary of career
- Education
- Honors
- Teaching/advising/mentoring
- Citations
- Grants
- Publications
- Research/teaching summary written by candidate
- Outside letters
What happens after dossier is prepared?
- Department review
- Tenured faculty generally involved in decision to recommend or deny tenure
- Department chair writes letter
- Some schools have subcommittee
- School review
- Often school-level committee reviews and makes recommendation to dean
- Dean makes recommendation
- Promotion/Tenure Committee (Provost)
- Makes recommendation to President
- President sometimes makes final decision
What happens after dossier is prepared?
- Department review
- School review
- Promotion/Tenure Committee (Provost)
- President may make final decision
Multiple levels of review — no one person makes the decision! Many voices are part of the process.
General process
- Understand the timing of preparing the dossier, what you should submit
and when
- Think carefully about names for Outside Letters
- Understand the process completely
- Don’t wait until the last minute to prepare your materials
- Think about your research/teaching summary
- Ensure that your papers are submitted in a timely way
- Ask QUESTIONS if you do not understand
Outside letters
- Highly influential in decision process
- May have opportunity to suggest names
- Develop relationships - create a network – MARKET yourself!
- Post-decision: Ask about possibility for feedback from the letters (can be useful)
Questions & Answers
what does preconceived mean
How can I develope my cognitive domain
why is communication effective
Communication is effective because it allows individuals to share ideas, thoughts, and information with others.
effective communication can lead to improved outcomes in various settings, including personal relationships, business environments, and educational settings. By communicating effectively, individuals can negotiate effectively, solve problems collaboratively, and work towards common goals.
it starts up serve and return practice/assessments.it helps find voice talking therapy also assessments through relaxed conversation.
miss
Every time someone flushes a toilet in the apartment building, the person begins to jumb back automatically after hearing the flush, before the water temperature changes. Identify the types of learning, if it is classical conditioning identify the NS, UCS, CS and CR. If it is operant conditioning, identify the type of consequence positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement or punishment
please i need answer
Wekolamo
because it helps many people around the world to understand how to interact with other people and understand them well, for example at work (job).
Agreed 👍 There are many parts of our brains and behaviors, we really need to get to know. Blessings for everyone and happy Sunday!
ARC
A child is a member of community not society elucidate ?
Isn't practices worldwide, be it psychology, be it science. isn't much just a false belief of control over something the mind cannot truly comprehend?
compare and contrast skinner's perspective on personality development on freud
Skinner skipped the whole unconscious phenomenon and rather emphasized on classical conditioning
war
explain how nature and nurture affect the development and later the productivity of an individual.
nature is an hereditary factor while nurture is an environmental factor which constitute an individual personality. so if an individual's parent has a deviant behavior and was also brought up in an deviant environment, observation of the behavior and the inborn trait we make the individual deviant.
Samuel
I am taking this course because I am hoping that I could somehow learn more about my chosen field of interest and due to the fact that being a PsyD really ignites my passion as an individual the more I hope to learn about developing and literally explore the complexity of my critical thinking skills
and having a good philosophy of the world is like a sandwich and a peanut butter 👍
Jonathan
generally amnesi how long yrs memory loss
interpersonal relationships
What would be the best educational aid(s) for gifted kids/savants?
treat them normal, if they want help then give them.
that will make everyone happy
Saurabh
What are the treatment for autism?
hello. autism is a umbrella term. autistic kids have different disorder overlapping. for example. a kid may show symptoms of ADHD and also learning disabilities.
before treatment please make sure the kid doesn't have physical disabilities like hearing..vision..speech problem. sometimes these
Jharna
continue..
sometimes due to these physical problems..the diagnosis may be misdiagnosed.
treatment for autism.
well it depends on the severity.
since autistic kids have problems in communicating and adopting to the environment.. it's best to expose the child in situations where the child
Jharna
child interact with other kids under doc supervision.
play therapy.
speech therapy.
Engaging in different activities that activate most parts of the brain.. like drawing..painting. matching color board game.
string and beads game.
the more you interact with the child the more effective
Jharna
results you'll get..
please consult a therapist to know what suits best on your child.
and last as a parent. I know sometimes it's overwhelming to guide a special kid.
but trust the process and be strong and patient as a parent.
Jharna
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