[ALL-PKAL] PKAL Volume IV: Shaping a Meaningful Career in Undergraduate STEM: Perspectives from the Field

[Project Kaleidoscope]

April 24, 2008

 

 

To:        Project Kaleidoscope Community

 

From:    The PKAL National Office

 

Re:       PKAL Volume IV: Shaping a Meaningful Career in Undergraduate
STEM: Perspectives from the Field

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Many things have to be in place for STEM faculty, at any and all stages
of their professional life, to achieve a rewarding scholarly career. It
takes an institutional culture in which leaders are seen as those making
a difference for students, for the campus community, and for the world
beyond. It takes attention to the nuts and bolts of providing money,
time, and connections for faculty to explore new ideas, seek out new
colleagues, and implement and assess new approaches in the classroom and
lab. It takes formal institutional policies and practices relative to
review and tenure.

 

Over the past two decades, PKAL has focused on what works as STEM
faculty seek to shape a rewarding scholarly career. We are compiling
resources from the PKAL archive and website into a Handbook for STEM
Faculty. It includes reflections from faculty at different career stages
about what works for them; it also includes essays and reports from
faculty and administrators about how to make the critical investments
that ensure STEM faculty (and faculty in all disciplines) achieve a
rewarding scholarly career. This is a work-in-progress and we invite
your comments. 

 

+http://www.pkal.org/collections/ShapingMeaningfulCareerSTEMPerspectives
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