2012 Summer Institute Dates: July 23-27 - Application due Friday, June 8, 2012
UDaily, May 10, 2012
2011 Agenda for reference (pdf)
This one-week Summer Institute is designed to prepare doctoral students and postdocs across disciplines for the academic career path. The Institute will focus on two primary goals (1) preparation for the academic job search process, and (2) acculturation and successful transition into the first years of an academic appointment. Morning sessions provide a framework for approaching the academic job search process and preparing for faculty careers at a variety of institutional types; afternoon sessions focus on authoring of academic job application documents such as CV, cover letter, research statement, teaching statement and refining documents via constructive instructor and peer feedback. The Institute will occur from 9:00a.m. - 3:30p.m. in Room 109, Memorial Hall.
Given the institute’s discussion-based focus and individually tailored feedback, enrollment is capped at 12 participants. The Institute focuses predominantly on preparation for faculty appointments, very minimally on preparation for postdoc positions.
Eligibility: Doctoral students who are one to two years away from completing their academic programs (i.e., have completed their coursework and passed their qualifying exams) and have begun to prepare for the academic job market. Postdocs, who are working at UD, and are interested in pursuing a faculty career.
Note. Graduate students who are enrolled or have completed the HETC program are not eligible to enroll.
Students' successful completion of the Institute will be recorded on their official transcript as UNIV 608.
Faculty: Gabriele Bauer, CTAL and Marianne Green, Bank of America Career Services Center
The Summer Institute is co-sponsored by the Office of Graduate & Professional Education.
Information: Gabriele Bauer, CTAL
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Past Institutes: |
2011 Participants Ke Li, Joseph Stanzione Kevin Daly, Laura Black, Juliette Tolay |
