1. Charting Your Path to Success
August 21, 2019

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

7. Classroom Technologies
Fall Schedule
Date & Time
Location
Topic
Aug 21, 4 - 5PM
202 Library
Charting Your Path to Success
Sept 4,
4 - 5PM
5:30 pm
Havener
Teaching Effectiveness
Chancellor Reception for ECF (new faculty)
Sept 18, 4-5PM
Library 103 CLC
Undergraduate Advising 101
Oct 2, 4-5PM
Library 202
Library 203
Finding Funding Opportunities (Research)
Classroom Challenges and Mid-Course Corrections
Oct 16, 4-5PM
Pre-Award Activities (Research)
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (Teaching)
Oct 30, 4-5PM
Classroom Technologies
Nov 13, 4-5PM
CAFE Grant Opportunities
Dec 4, 4-5PM
Topic of your choice (TBD)
TO update

8. Charting Your Path to Success
Week 1: August 21
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
Discuss the survey results
Source:

9. Getting Started with Teaching
Week 2: September 4th
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 teaching awards
Learn about Ten Steps to Teaching Success program
Source:

10. Undergraduate Advising 101
Week 3: September 18th
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

11. Identifying Research Sponsors & Finding Funding
Week 4: October 2nd
Identifying Research Sponsors & Finding Funding
Discuss strategies for identifying research sponsors
Discuss strategies for finding funding opportunities
Week 4: October 2
Classroom Challenges and Mid-Course Corrections
Discuss effective ways to engage students
Learn about support for students in distress
Find out benefits of mid-semester feedback

12. Week 5: October 16th Pre-Award Activities
The Vice Chancellor for Research will share tools and tips for launching your research agenda and how to successfully conduct pre-award activities.
Week 5: October 16
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Discuss purpose and value of SoTL
Learn about the support for conducting SoTL at S&T
Source:

13. CLASSROOM TECHNOLOGIES
Week 6: October 30
CLASSROOM TECHNOLOGIES
Discuss how to get the most out of classroom technologies to enhance student learning
Learn about lecture capture resources
Discuss ways to maximize the use of classroom technologies

14. CAFE Grant Opportunities
Week 7: November 13
CAFE Grant Opportunities
Learn about the funding opportunities for travel for early career faculty
Hear about other funding opportunities available through CAFE

15. Week 8: December 4
TBD
Early career faculty will choose topics of interest to discuss
CAFE Programs:

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

18. RESEARCH MENTORING LUNCH for CASB
September 3rd: Dr. Costas Tsatsoulis, Vice Chancellor of Research and Dean of Graduate Studies, will provide an overview of activities of the Office of Sponsored Research and how his office can help you to secure funding for your research.
At noon in 120 Fulton
RSVPs are required

19. RESEARCH MENTORING LUNCH for CASB
October 1st: Mr. Keith Strassner, Assistant Vice Provost for Technology and Business Development, will cover how faculty can work with industrial partners and provide advice on best practices for these activities.
At noon in 120 Fulton
RSVPs are required

20. RESEARCH MENTORING LUNCH for CASB
November 5th: Dr. Susan Renoe, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research, Extension & Engagement at the University of Missouri, and Dr. Sara Vassmer, Director of The Connector, are members of ARIS (Advancing Research Impact in Society) and the NABI (National Alliance for Broader Impacts). They work with faculty across all four UM campuses on the broader impacts of their research.
At noon in 120 Fulton
RSVPs are required

21. RESEARCH MENTORING LUNCH for CASB
December 3rd: Ms. Susan Hernandez, grants manager at the Saint Louis Science Center, will discuss possible opportunities to collaborate on federal grants with the Science Center.
At noon in 120 Fulton
RSVPs are required