Career Stage Retreat / Assistant ProfessorsCountry Club of Ithaca
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
8:30 – 9:00 Breakfast
9:00 – 12:00 How to Command your Audience and Master your
Performance
Melanie
Dreyer-Lude, Department of Film, Theatre and Dance,
Cornell University
This
workshop will provide you with tools that will help you relax, build
confidence, and radiate charisma in any presentation situation, focusing on
body language, use of voice and controlled performance. Participants will be
asked to prepare a minute or two description of themselves /research/hobby,
which, if they wish, will be filmed to be later viewed by them as they reflect
on what they learnt.
Lunch and afternoon
clinics are open to both men and women.
12:00 – 1:00 Networking Lunch & Transition to Afternoon
1:00 – 2:00 Teaching Clinic
Panel discussion on being successful in the classroomHarry Green, Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyMichael Macy, Professor, SociologyRuth Richardson, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental EngineeringDawn Schrader, Associate Professor, Education 2:00 – 3:00 Developing a Circle of Mentors
Rick Allmendinger, Associate Dean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Katharine McComas, Associate Professor, Communication Robert Raguoso, Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior Kathleen M. Rasmussen, Professor, Division of Nutritional Sciences 3:00 – 3:15 Coffee Break
3:15 – 4:30 Reappointment and Tenure
Panel discussion addressing 3rd year reappointments and the tenure process
Rosemary Avery, Chair, Policy Analysis and Management
Paulette Clancy, Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Nelson Hairston, Chair, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
John Siliciano, Vice Provost