1. Charting Your Path to Success
August 22, 2018

2. Early Career Faculty Forum Series
Welcome!
Early Career Faculty Forum Series
Meets every other Wednesday from 4 – 5PM
All pre-tenure/pre-promotion faculty invited!

3. CAFE Objectives CAFE aims to:
Enable and support faculty excellence at all stages of career
Maintain balance among the teaching, research, and service missions of Missouri S&T
Establish and sustain CAFE as the foremost faculty development unit on campus

4. Early Career Faculty Forum Objectives
Early career faculty who regularly attend the forums will be able to:
Develop usable products at sessions that can be applied to promote student and faculty success
Navigate the Missouri S&T culture and available resources, and network with colleagues
Refine skills for teaching and learning
Assemble an effective promotion and tenure dossier

5. What’s Different This Year
Success Binder: to help track individual progress in teaching, research and service to aid the promotion and tenure process. Bring your binder to every forum
Parallel Research and Teaching Tracks – you choose
Meeting in various locations – check the calendar

6. Fall Schedule
Date & Time
Location
Topic
Aug 22, 4 - 5PM
Havener – Carver Turner
Charting Your Path to Success
Sept 5, 4-5:30PM
Havener – St. Pat’s Ballroom A
Getting Started with Teaching
Sept 19, 4 -5PM
Library 103 CLC
Undergraduate Advising 101
Oct 3, 4-5PM
Havener – Carver & Turner
Finding Funding Opportunities (R)
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (T)
Oct 17, 4-6PM
Rolla Public House Brewing
Happy Hour with the Master Mentors
Oct 31, 4-5PM
Pre-Award Activities (research)
Teaching Track: TBD
Nov 14, 4-5PM
Havener – Turner
Managing Classroom Challenges
Nov 28, 4-5PM
Travel Grant and Mini-Sabbatical Presentations
Dec 12, 4-5PM
Havener-Missouri
Role of Research Centers (R)
Funding for Innovative Teaching (T)

7. Charting Your Path to Success
Week 1: August 22
Charting Your Path to Success
Get to know new faculty colleagues (introductions)
Provide overview of forum topics for the year
Identify questions and areas of interest to address in future forums
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8. Getting Started with Teaching
Week 2: September 5th
Getting Started with Teaching
Explore what it means to prepare, communicate, and show you care as a teacher
Discuss 7 questions on CET evaluations
Talk about what to do if you find a student cheating
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9. Undergraduate Advising 101
Week 3: September 19th
Undergraduate Advising 101
Overview many faces of advising
Discuss basics of undergraduate advising: what do to and say
Hands on tutorial about how to use the S&T advising software
Source: missourisandt.photoshelter.com

10. Identifying Research Sponsors & Finding Funding
Week 4: October 3
Identifying Research Sponsors & Finding Funding
Discuss strategies for identifying research sponsors
Discuss strategies for finding funding opportunities
Week 4: October 3
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Discuss purpose and value of SoTL
Learn about the support for conducting SoTL at S&T

11. Happy Hour with the Master Mentors
Week 5: October 17th
Happy Hour with the Master Mentors
Get to know the Master Mentors and new faculty colleagues in an informal setting--Rolla Public House Brewing Company
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12. Pre-Award Activities (Research)
Week 6: October 31
Pre-Award Activities (Research)
Discuss how to get a proposal out the door
Learn PeopleSoft
Week 6: October 31
Teaching Track - TBD

13. Managing Classroom Challenges
Week 7: November 17
Managing Classroom Challenges
Discuss solutions to case studies of classroom challenges
Identify where to go with different classroom challenges
How do you help students who need help you haven’t been trained to give?
source: missourisandt.photoshelter.com

14. Mini-Sabbatical & Travel Grant Presentations
Week 8: November 28
Mini-Sabbatical & Travel Grant Presentations
Learn about the funding opportunities for travel for early career faculty
Hear from early career colleagues about different ways they have applied the fund

15. The Role of Research Centers
Week 9: December 12
The Role of Research Centers
Prepare an elevator speech to share with a research center, and they will provide friendly feedback
Week 9: December 12
Funding for Innovative Teaching
Develop a research question related to teaching or student learning
Learn about funding opportunities for innovative teaching: eFellows, educational research mini-grants, KEEN workshops

16. Spring Schedule
Date & Time
Location
Topic
Jan 30, 4-5PM
Meramec Gasconade
Goal Setting, Honors & Awards
Feb 13, 4-5PM
Publications and Scholarly Works (R)
Teaching Track: TBD
Feb 28, 4-5PM
204 Library
How Do Students Learn? (Thursday)
Mar 15, 8-4PM
Havener – Carver Turner
Proposal Writing Bootcamp
Mar 20, 6-8PM
Matt’s Steakhouse
History of Missouri S&T Dinner with spouses
Apr 3, 4-5PM
What’s Important in Service?
Apr 17, 4-5PM
Havener – Turner
Travel Grant & Mini-Sabbatical presentations
May 1, 4-5PM
Havener – Missouri
Promotion & Tenure at Missouri S&T (parallel tenure-track and non-tenure track sessions)

17. ?? Your goals, questions and concerns
What do you hope to get out of the forum series? ??