Colloquium on the Academic Profession

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This course is designed to explore faculty roles and responsibilities at various types of colleges and universities. It will bring together faculty from schools in the Triad and Triangle area to discuss such topics as: how teaching is evaluated and weighed at different institutions; what counts as service; what are different schools looking for in new faculty appointments; how can you maintain a research career in a school whose priorities are undergraduate teaching; what makes a good mentor; departmental politics. The course is restricted to Preparing Future Faculty Fellows and will meet monthly on the campuses of Durham Technical Community College, Duke, Elon College, Guilford College, Meredith College, NCCU, and NCSU.