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September 2019
Writing a Competitive Research Grant Proposal
This workshop will discuss strategies for developing a persuasive grant proposal that is responsive to sponsor priorities. Focusing on proposals that are driven by a hypothesis and/or research question, this workshop will offer an overview of crucial pre-proposal preparation, from assessing readiness, to analyzing funders, to understanding the review process. During the second half of the program, we will look at proposal components, structure, writing style and common errors. Host: Fiona Lee, LSA Associate Dean for DEI and Professional Development…
Find out more »Faculty Recruitment Workshop
The Committee on Strategies and Tactics for Recruiting to Improve Diversity and Excellence (STRIDE) offers Faculty Recruitment Workshops for faculty members with an important role in faculty recruitment efforts (e.g., search committee chairs and members, and other key faculty). These workshops are designed to provide them both with background information and concrete advice about practices that make searches more successful in producing diverse candidate pools and hiring the candidates you want to attract. Workshops are scheduled for the fall term.…
Find out more »October 2019
Faculty Recruitment Workshop
The Committee on Strategies and Tactics for Recruiting to Improve Diversity and Excellence (STRIDE) offers Faculty Recruitment Workshops for faculty members with an important role in faculty recruitment efforts (e.g., search committee chairs and members, and other key faculty). These workshops are designed to provide them both with background information and concrete advice about practices that make searches more successful in producing diverse candidate pools and hiring the candidates you want to attract. Workshops are scheduled for the fall term.…
Find out more »Getting Your Book Published: Publishers’ and Authors’ Perspectives
Becoming a published scholarly writer is part of what it means to be a professional academic. But there are specific skills for the academic author to learn—from proposal to manuscript to first book and on to the books that will follow. This session will focus on the professional publishing knowledge every academic writer needs. Experts in academic publishing will address the key issues, review options and strategies, and field questions. Also, a LSA faculty member who has recently successfully navigated…
Find out more »Faculty Recruitment Workshop – Refresher (limited to faculty who have previously attended a Faculty Recruitment Workshop)
Please note: only faculty who have previously attended a Faculty Recruitment Workshop can attend this one. The Committee on Strategies and Tactics for Recruiting to Improve Diversity and Excellence (STRIDE) offers Faculty Recruitment Workshops for faculty members with an important role in faculty recruitment efforts (e.g., search committee chairs and members, and other key faculty). These workshops are designed to provide them both with background information and concrete advice about practices that make searches more successful in producing diverse candidate…
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