Twenty-Fourth Annual Academic Career Conference |
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The Twenty-Fourth Annual Academic Career Conference features panels and workshops during the fall semester on topics of interest to doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows who are looking for academic jobs and planning academic careers. Speakers are faculty members and administrators from Penn and area colleges and universities. In the last 23 years, nearly 90 faculty members and administrators from Penn and area institutions have participated in this series or in its spring semester counterpart, Faculty Conversations on the Academic Job Search and Academic Life. Penn doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows benefit from faculty, administrators and advanced doctoral students, who share their time and provide advice on preparing for academic careers. Both series are co-sponsored with the Vice Provost for Education.
Going on the Academic Job Market: Advice from Faculty Members
Applying for positions, preparing for interviews, understanding how search committees work
Humanities and Social Sciences:
Monday, September 24, 5-6:30 p.m.,
Golkin Room, Houston Hall
Science and Engineering:
Thursday, September 27, 5-6:30 p.m.,
Class of ’49 Auditorium, Houston Hall
Faculty Careers in Different Kinds of Teaching-Focused Institutions
Monday, October 15, 4:30-6 p.m.,
Golkin Room, Houston Hall
Putting Together a Strong Job Talk: Humanities and Social Sciences
Tuesday, October 30, noon-1 p.m.,
Room 203, Graduate School of Education
Putting Together a Strong Job Talk: Sciences, Math and Engineering
Thursday, November 1, noon-1 p.m.,
A6 David Rittenhouse Lab
To check for updates and speakers’ names and to register go to www.vpul.upenn.edu/careerservices/gradstud/calendar.html
Workshops by Career Services staff & Center for Teaching and Learning staff
Preparing Written Materials for the Academic Job Search
Thursday, September 20,
A6 David Rittenhouse Lab
Humanities and Social Sciences, 4-5 p.m.
Sciences, Math and Engineering, 5-6 p.m.
Talking about Your Teaching in Application Materials
Tuesday, October 9, noon-1 p.m.,
Room 305, Graduate Student Center
Talking about Your Teaching in Interviews
Wednesday, October 19, noon-1 p.m.,
Room 305, Graduate Student Center
Preparing for Screening Interviews
Wednesday, October 24, noon-1 p.m.,
Room 97, McNeil Building
Finding the Right Postdoc: Advice fromCurrent Postdoctoral Fellows
Thursday, November 8, noon-1 p.m.,
Golkin Room, Houston Hall
Talking about Your Research
Thursday, November 15, noon-1:30 p.m.,
Room 97, McNeil Building
Also: For PhD Students at the beginning and middle stages of their program
The Insider’s Guide to Graduate Education at Penn—A Program for First Year Doctoral Students
Tuesday, October 16, 5-6:30 p.m.,
Terrace Room, Claudia Cohen Hall
Dr. Andrew Binns, Penn’s Vice Provost for Education and a panel of second and third year doctoral students discuss getting off to a good start, understanding a career in research, understanding what your graduate program expects of you, managing coursework and engaging with faculty.
Being Strategic about Your Career While Doing Your PhD—A Program for Second, Third and Fourth Year
Doctoral Students
Date in November,
time and location to be determined
Advanced doctoral students/recent PhDs, moderated by an administrator, discuss selecting your advisor, determining your research topic/dissertation proposal, working with your advisor/committee and conducting your research and staying on track.
Questions or suggestions of speakers can be directed to Julie Miller Vick, senior asssociate director, Career Services, at vick@upenn.edu
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