Departmental%20Support%20for%20Assistant%20Professors

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Departmental Support for Assistant Professors

• Kathryn S McKinley
• The University of Texas at Austin

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Outline

• J Moore Remarks
• Discussion points
• General
• Research
• Teaching
• Service
• Family
• What is the best thing your department has done
  to help you?

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General Beyond your startup package

• Department assigns you (and pick your own)
  department and UT mentors for
• Research, Teaching, Service
• Administrative support
• who will help you fill out paper work!?
• Peter Bills Excellent CS Adventure
• explains how UT and CS work
• Assistant professor financial planning
• Spend ahead

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Research

• Night time reading year 1
• recent successful tenure cases at your
  institution
• recent successful Career grants in your area and
  from your institution
• Every year
• keep detailed records
• review your progress with your department chair
  and some other senior faculty mentor
• What are the research criteria?
• Papers in top conferences, journals, funding,
  etc.
• Meet and greet
• Introductions to NSF/Darpa program managers
• Introductions to industrial contacts
• Collaborate
• your colleagues have trained students

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Teaching

• Appropriate course choices
• undergraduate course you can teach repeatedly
• graduate course you can use to screen and train
  students
• seminars for advanced training
• TA support and good TAs
• Invest in being a decent teacher
• the right thing
• get it right quickly and both you and the
  students will find it more rewarding
• Department University seminars
• Teaching software remote question systems
• Mentor evaluations

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Service

• Department Service
• not too hot, not too cold, but just right
• teaches you how the department works
• active member of department life
• External Service
• what to do?

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Family

• Teaching release for babies
• End department meetings no later than 5 and start
  no earlier than 9
• Miminize after 5 obligations
• how many faculty candidates do you need to eat
  dinner with?

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Whats the best thing your department to help you?