Friday, November 15, 2019
| 1:00-2:00 | Registration |
Afternoon session: Finding your place in the academy
| 2:00-2:25 | Opening Remarks and Workshop Overview Dean Blanche Staton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 2:30-3:25 | Finding the Time to Do it All Panel discussion: advice on maintaining a balanced life, in light of the rigors of an academic career |
| 3:25-3:45 | Coffee break |
| 3:50-4:45 | What type of institution is right for you? Panel discussion: the cultures, benefits, and drawbacks of different types of universities |
| 4:50-5:45 | Building Professional Relationships Panel discussion |
| 5:45-6:00 | Closing Remarks |
| 6:15-7:30 | Cocktail Reception and Remarks Blanche Staton, Senior Associate Dean for Graduate Education Keynote Speaker: |
Saturday, November 16, 2019
| 8:00-8:30 | Breakfast |
Morning session: Getting the position you want
| 8:30-9:25 | Applying Panel discussion: what application packages include, what the key features of teaching and research statements are, what search committees are looking for |
| 9:30-10:15 | The Interview Process Lecture: a practical guide to interviewing, and considering offers when you get them |
| 10:15-10:30 | Coffee break |
| 10:35-11:30 | Negotiating the Offer Panel discussion: what can be negotiated and how to ask |
| 11:35-12:30 | Guiding Principles: How to be a “Quick-Start” Professor Panel discussion: getting support from your university and department, negotiating for a quick-start lab, and the skills you can hone now that will help you be an effective and successful lab leader, mentor, and principle investigator |
| 12:30-1:25 | Lunch |
Afternoon session: Surviving Your First Year as Junior Faculty
| 1:30-1:45 | Introductory remarks |
| 1:45-2:40 | Funding Panel Discussion: Find Grants to apply to, define your fundable research goals, sell your proposal, and manage your budget. |
| 2:45-3:40 | The Tenure Process Panel discussion: Managing the teaching load, publication requirement and work-life balance. Building a CV, teaching statement, and list of letter writers. |
| 3:40-3:55 Coffee break | |
| 3:55-4:50 | Speeches, Presentations and Performing Workshop |
| 4:50-5:05 | Closing Remarks Dean Blanche Staton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |