Junior Faculty Leadership Training 2011
The third annual NM EPSCoR Junior Faculty Leadership workshop continued a track record of success with participants providing enthusiastic praise for the event.
The three-day workshop, January 4-6, 2011, focused on improving the communication skills and productivity of new faculty and advanced post-doc scholars. This year’s agenda continued and expanded the highly successful “Communicating with Media” interactive session and included additional sessions on effective teaching and mentoring as previous attendees requested. There were sixteen participants from nine different institutions across New Mexico and our Tri-State partner states of Idaho and Nevada. The workshop was held at the Valles Caldera National Preserve Science and Education Center in Jemez Springs, NM.
The remote location and residential program allowed for extensive informal networking and new collegial synergies among participants.
- Successful Proposal Writing, Scott Collins, PI for the Long Term Ecological Research program at the Sevilleta Research Station
- Increasing your Productivity, William Michener, PI for NM EPSCoR and DataOne
- Teaching that Produces Learning, UNM Office to Support Effective Teaching
- Mentoring, Maggie Werner-Washburne, UNM Regent’s Professor and Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Math and Engineering Mentoring recipient
- Communicating Science to the Media, Sandra Blakeslee, NY Times science reporter
- Leader as Facilitator, Carl Moore, The Community Store
- Communicating with Decision-Makers, Robert Gropp, American Institute of Biological Sciences
Presentations and Agenda (PDF)
Talking to the Media: Why it matters and how to do it
Time Management and Productivity, Proposal Development, and Project Management Tools
Musings on the similarities and differences between Betty the GPS and mentoring
New Mexico Faculty Leadership Program – 2011 Agenda
View the Valles Caldera National Preserve Science and Education Center Brochure (PDF).Here are a few of the comments made by some of the 2011 attendees
"…after the presentations on the first day I could barely get to sleep as I was filled with so much inspiration and new ideas."
"I appreciated the emphasis on developing practical skills, and the breadth of subjects covered was excellent."
"I think the time management and leaders as facilitators workshops were particularly useful. I am a very organized person, but I am always looking for new ways to keep on-top of things and alternative methods used by others."
"This workshop is probably the most useful program I have attended over my career."
"The program was really great. I felt that it was organized and truly based on our needs."
