CRA-W has sponsored a series of Career Mentoring Workshops, targeted to women in all stages of their academic careers. Women often find themselves a minority in their own departments, and the CRA-W workshops bring them together with women already established in their fields. The established professionals provide practical information, advice, and support to their younger colleagues. Each of the workshops is associated with a major professional meeting, providing many attendees with the opportunity to attend technical talks and make contacts in their research areas.

Workshop reports and transcripts

Career Mentoring Workshops full report (pdf): Guidance for graduate students, new Ph.Ds, and professionals at all levels.

Graduate School Information Guide (pdf)

Building a Research Career (pdf): Going beyond your thesis. Advising graduate students. Journal versus conference publications. What referees look for. What to do when a paper is rejected. Collaborating.

Getting a Job (pdf): How to develop a marketable vita. What to expect on an interview; what to do and what not to do.

Obtaining Federal Funding (pdf): Strategies for obtaining funding from the federal government and industry. The structure of a good proposal. Contacting grant officers. Resources at the university.

Networking and Professional Social Interaction (pdf): The importance of networking. Attending conferences. How to meet the right people and what to say to them. Describing your work. Being part of the "Young Girls' Network.''

Tenure (pdf): What's needed and what's not needed. Writing a good tenure dossier. Choosing references. Typical successful cases. Common pitfalls and mistakes.

Perspectives from the Smaller Schools (pdf): How requirements and expectations differ across a range of academic institutions.

Time Management (pdf): How to get this all done. How much time to spend on teaching, service, and research. Life outside of work.

Teaching: How to be a good teacher. Common mistakes of new teachers. What you should be teaching. Dealing with problem students. Special problems facing women faculty.

Slides and Transcripts

NEW Slides from Managing the Academic Career for Faculty Women at Undergraduate Computer Science and Engineering Institutions at SIGCSE 2007, March 7 in Northern Kentucky.

The 2005 Workshop held on April 16 -17 in Washington, D.C. was a huge success!. View the Workshop slides and schedule.

Slides from Managing the Academic Caareer for Faculty Women at Undergraduate Computer Science and Engineering Institutions at SIGCSE 2005, February 24 in St. Louis, Mo.

Slides from Managing the Academic Career for Faculty Women at Undergraduate Computer Science and Engineering Institutions held at SIGCSE 2003, February 19.

Slides and from the Mentoring Workshop held at FCRC 2003, June 6-8 in San Diego, California

Transcripts and Slides are available from the Canadian Academic Careers Workshop for Women in Science and Engineering July 7, 2000.

Transcripts are available from the Federated Computing Research Conference (FCRC 1999).

Past Slides and Transcripts (1993-1999)

Background on Workshops

Sponsors of the CRA-W Career Mentoring Workshops: