These drop-in online events for graduate students and postdocs are led by faculty and staff from 45 North American CIRTL Network universities and held as interactive Zoom meetings, usually with no attendance cap. Event series include a handful of events that revolve around a unifying theme. Participants can attend as many or as few events as they like in a given series, as long as they register to receive the Zoom links. Recordings may be available on CIRTL Network’s YouTube channel for some events. Contact futurefaculty@cornell.edu with questions about Cornell community member participation.
Upcoming Events
Spring 2025
Get a sampler of academic professional development in this 8-part event series covering everything from the academic hiring process, to defining your teaching philosophy, to careers outside academia. Events meet online in Zoom; schedule and registration TBD.
Learn about different career paths in academia and beyond in conversation with CIRTL alumni in this 4-part event series. Each event in the series will focus on a different career path: teaching careers at research universities, teaching careers at teaching-intensive institutions (liberal arts colleges, community colleges, etc.), non-faculty careers in academia, and careers outside of academia. Events in this series take place on Tuesdays, April 1 through April 22 from 12:00-1:00pm ET. Registration opens Monday, March 3.
Hear graduate students and postdocs from across the CIRTL Network share the results of their Teaching-as-Research (TAR) projects in this online presentation session. In TAR projects, future faculty explore a specific question about teaching and learning, design and implement some sort of classroom-based intervention to test that question, and consider how they might adjust their teaching practices based on what the results show. TAR is a cornerstone of CIRTL’s work in developing reflective practitioners that support learning for all. This online event meets on Wednesday, April 9 from 12-1:30pm ET.
All upcoming CIRTL events and course meetings
Past Series
Career Preparation
Learn about teaching at community colleges straight from current staff & faculty! In this three-part series, we’ll hear faculty & staff reflect on the joys and challenges of teaching at a community college, the broad diversity of students in their courses and how that diversity enhances learning, and the ins and outs of finding a full-time teaching position at a community college. The panelists will take questions from future faculty throughout the presentations.
Learn about different career paths in academia and beyond in conversation with CIRTL alumni in this event series. Each event in the series will focus on a different career path: teaching careers at research universities, teaching careers at teaching-intensive institutions (liberal arts colleges, community colleges, etc.), non-faculty careers in academia, and careers outside of academia.
CIRTL Alumni Network Events
Being in a profession, such as teaching and advising, carries with it an expectation of certain shared behaviors, one of which concerns professional ethics. However, faculty may often act on personal ethical standards and not think about existing guidelines for the profession. Please join Rob Linsenmeier, Professor Emeritus, and Jennifer Cole, Associate Professor of Instruction, both at Northwestern University, to discuss ethical standards of the profession and how they play out in practice.
Advising and Mentorship
Productive Mentorship: Bringing Out the Best in Your Students (Spring and Summer 2018)
Learn how research mentoring differs for graduate and undergraduate students, and how issues of equity and inclusion impact these important relationships. Part two of the series on productive mentorship included two events: a panel discussion on mental health and the mentor-mentee relationship, and a constructive debate on how mentoring has changed from over the past generations.
Inclusive Teaching
Join this teaching and learning book club hosted by the University of Colorado Boulder to read and discuss Kelly A. Hogan and Viji Sathy’s book Inclusive Teaching: Strategies for Promoting Equity in the College Classroom. Participants will discuss the text and explore ways we can apply this understanding in our own classrooms and university lives.
Addressing Implicit Bias in STEM (Fall 2018)
Explore how an evidence-based approach to implicit bias can promote greater equity and inclusion within STEM teaching and learning in this four-part, weekly online event series.
Exploring Inclusive Teaching within STEM Disciplines: Conversations Among Faculty, Future Faculty, and Students (Spring 2018)
Examine how inclusive teaching and issues of diversity differ across STEM disciplines in this four-part series.
Topics in STEMinism: Strategies for Inclusive Undergraduate STEM Education and Women Preparing for Post-PhD Careers in STEM (Spring 2018 and Fall 2017)
Explore the ways social and cultural contexts shape the unique experiences of women pursuing undergraduate STEM degrees. The Graduate School’s Future Faculty and Academic Careers program partnered with Graduate Women in STEM (GWIS Ithaca Chapter) to host local coffee and webinar viewing discussions of the Fall 2017 series.
Pedagogical Strategies
Fostering Antiracist Student Learning Experiences (Fall 2021)
Explore frameworks to unpack systemic racism, hear from faculty and grad students who have fostered their own sustainable antiracist teaching practices, and reflect on your own ability to build an equitable learning environment in this four-part series
Engaging Students through High-Impact Practices (Fall 2020)
Learn the defining features of high-impact practices (like service learning, research, internships, etc.) and understand how these experiences can foster opportunities for student reflection and instructor assessment.
Research on Teaching
Digging Deeper: A Focus on Research using Qualitative Design (Spring 2018)
Get an introduction to qualitative research: what it is, and how to do it.
Next Steps: Leveraging Your TAR Project for Future Funding Opportunities (Summer 2018)
Learn how to use your Teaching-as-Research project to strengthen grant proposals in this drop-in event.
