CW2001 Program - Computers and Writing

3:30 — 5:00
Teacher Preparation Forum:
“Impossible Realities: Preparing Future Faculty”
Cardinal Hall, Pittenger Student Center
Ray Rodrigues, Cynthia Jeney, Joel English, Michael Salvo
This panel discussion and open forum is designed for faculty in
departments that grant the doctorate, for doctoral candidates, and for
untenured faculty in particular, though we invite anyone to attend. We
address ways to help doctoral candidates survive some of the shocks
that await them as new faculty in post-secondary institutions, shocks
such as dysfunctional departments, union environments that constrain
faculty choices, departments with faculty who have never conducted
research since receiving their doctorates, departments with senior
faculty who do not have doctorates, and mysteries about maneuvering
the institution’s bureaucratic mazes. Panel members will suggest
strategies for orienting new faculty to the department, to faculty in
other departments, to governance committees, to local resources.
And the members will suggest steps that new faculty may take themselves
to be successful in their new departments.
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