NSF-Sponsored Academic Workshop for Underrepresented Assistant Professors, Associate Professors, and Senior Doctoral Students
Deadline for Participant Applications - Friday, 6 February 2009 Saturday, 4 April 2009 - Sunday, 5 April 2009
Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront in Portland, Oregon
Held in conjunction with the Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference
The Coalition to Diversify Computing (CDC), a joint organization of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), the Computing Research Association (CRA), and the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-CS), is organizing the second annual Academic Workshop for Underrepresented Participants funded by an NSF Broadening Participation in Computing grant. The BPC Demonstration grant provides funding for participant travel, lodging, and meeting logistics.
The goal of the workshop is to mentor underrepresented assistant- and associate-level faculty and senior doctoral students about the academic career ladder. It is well known that mentoring activities are critical for successful promotions in the professoriate. Such activities are especially needed for underrepresented ethnic faculty in the field of computing, where the number at a given institution is usually very small. The workshop will include panels of diverse senior faculty talking about the tenure and promotion process, launching a research program, professionalism, and a detailed session on proposal writing. The workshop organizers include Valerie Taylor (Texas A&M University), Bryant York (Portland State University), Illya Hicks (Rice University), and Domingo Rodriguez (University of Puerto Rico in Mayaguez).
We invite underrepresented assistant- and associate-level faculty and senior doctoral students to submit an on-line application at the following URL: http://apply2.cse.tamu.edu/AcademicCareerWorkshop/ by Friday, 6 February 2009. Participants will be notified by Monday, 20 February 2009. Funding will be provided for all participants.
Questions about the program can be sent to Valerie Taylor, taylor@cse.tamu.edu.
