1. CRA-W CAPP Workshop – November 2012 Career Success After Tenure Kathryn S McKinley, Kathryn S McKinley, Microsoft Co-Chair CRA Women

2. CRA-W Computer Research Association Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research Mission increase the participation and success of women in computing research www.cra-w.org

3. What does CRA-W do? Individual & Group Research Mentoring Graduate Students Undergraduates Academic careers Industry/government Undergrads: Undergraduate Research Experiences Undergrads: Distinguished lecture role models Grad Cohort: group mentoring of grad students Grad Students: Discipline Specific Research workshops PhD Researchers: group mentoring of early & mid career@ CMW, CAPP, Hopper & Tapia 600+ students and PhD researchers a year www.cra-w.org

4. Software for future hardware fast, portable, secure, error tolerant, energy efficient Kathryn McKinley Principal Research, Microsoft Professor @ UT Austin & UMass ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow 17 PhD students Testified to Congress Elements of my Post Tenure Success 1. Initiated DaCapo multi-institution grant 2. Member of TRIPS project 3. Led “Best of PLDI, 20 years” from SIGPLAN EC Energy

5. What are we doing? Your success at the next level – 15 minutes of practical advice Make a plan – 30 minutes in 3 person groups 6 min (2 each), what got you tenure? 8 min each – 2 min, what’s next for you? – 6 min, group discusses strategies for succeeding @ what’s next – 30 sec report outs (1) Name (2) What’s next? (3) Best strategy

6. Lots of Paths to Success & Full Professor You have tenure! Celebrate, you rock! What’s next? Follow your own path – but we all know the basics: Leadership in Research Excellence in Teaching Visibility of Service Make it the best job in the world … Do what you love and love what you do!

7. Promotion to Associate vs. Promotion to Full Professor … take advantage of the freedom … mitigate the risks Find your passion! (if you haven’t already) – Solving societal problems? make the world a better place! – Curriculum innovation? improve student lives! – Science policy outreach? tell the public how important we are! External visibility and leadership are critical

8. Local Expectations What’s important at your institution? – Balance what “counts”? 1.research 2.teaching 3.service – Study recent cases (successful and unsuccessful) caution: criteria change – Serve on academic personnel committee – You still need senior and peer mentors – find an advocate!

9. Outstanding Teaching Carve out a leadership role Don’t just keep teaching the same thing – same course – same way, same content Innovate a course that need it – Curriculum reform is essential our field changes rapidly – But… be strategic limit new preps choose a course where you make a difference Be visible … be present! it gets boring for everyone!

10. Research Maturity Choose important, challenging problems Publish in top venues Fund your research through variety of sources – need continuous funding in a changing world – explore options other than NSF Balance a coherent research portfolio – continue successful directions – innovate, choose some new area – consider high-impact, potentially high-risk areas – start a new collaboration (without $$ first) – explore interdisciplinary work

11. Research Leadership Lead visible research efforts – Collaborative grants, [new] workshops, Say yes to important (not all) research service – program committees, grant review panels – editorial boards, ACM/CRA committees – mentor junior faculty in your discipline Make your research visible – cultivate senior research leaders – give great talks at workshops, Universities, companies, labs – go to YOUR conference every year – place your students well – their success is yours! Do an excellent job, Be visible … Be present!

12. Service is Leadership, Recognition, Impact Government Professional & Research Community University Department impacts leadership visibility impacts leadership local collegiality }}}} choose a focus/theme for your service

13. Choose Service that Matters! Career Benefit Journal Editor SIG Board CRA Women Admissions Curriculum Reform Space Undergrad Mentoring Hiring Faculty Eval Somebody “should” Time Note: your institution may differ

14. Promotion to Full: When? Roughly six years, no fixed clock – Typically self initiated: 4 years is fast, 8 is slow – some data shows women take longer Plan your case before going forward – After 2 or 3 years, are you on track? – find your advocates Someone likes your work, you got tenure Meet every year with the chair & 1 or 2 senior colleagues – email CV before meeting Solicit input from senior external discipline leaders – Study recent successful cases – Perfect web page, CV, all the time! Record all talks, courses, students, etc. when you say yes If the answer is not now, ask about weakness

15. Procedures @UT Austin Yearly review Full timeframe is ~6 years, but self initiated! – acceleration & deferment both frequent Same process, but higher standards – established outstanding research leader PI of large grant, PC Chair, best paper, awards, etc. – Famous external letters: Fellows, Turing Award,.. – extensive curriculum vitae – teaching evaluations – personal statements → Department → Chair → Dean → CAP → Provost

16. Make a Plan 30 minutes in 3 person groups – 6 min (2 each), what got you tenure? – 8 min each 2 min, what’s next for you? 6 min, group discusses strategies for succeeding @ what’s next 30 second report out each person 1.Name & institution 2.What’s next? 3.Best strategy

17. REPORT OUTS 30 seconds each 1.Name & institution 2.What’s next? 3.Best strategy

18. The best job in the world! Do what you love and love what you do! Maintain a positive attitude – learn from your mistakes, there will be many! – don’t lose heart or face if denied – all your efforts at your institution increases your marketability Maintain perspective – make sure you enjoy your job!

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