The Pathways Explorations Series features large-scale, TED-style talks where motivating and inspiring speakers tell their personal, academic and professional stories to our Mines campus community. The talks are required for CSM 101 students to learn about the many possible academic and career pathways available to them. The talks are open to all Mines students, faculty and staff, and will be live-streamed and recorded.

Are you as assistant professor looking to get a strong start on promotion and/or tenure? Join these lunch workshops! The “Launching Your Academic Career” faculty workshops start again this August. Workshops are offered every other Monday from 12-1:30 in Berthoud 106 (content from 12-1, extended time for discussion, as suggested by past participants, is from 1-1:30). Workshops are open to any early-career faculty member on the tenure-, teaching- or research lines as well as postdocs and senior faculty coming from industry or other non-academic spaces to Mines. Come to whichever meetings are of interest, arrive late or leave early, and attend even if you have attended the same workshop(s) in the past! Lunch will be provided, and each week is somewhat independent such that folks can attend as they are able. Topics: Workshop 1 (August 28, 12-1:30): Expectations for Promotion and/or Tenure: Publishing Your Research Workshop 2 (Sept 11, 12-1:30): Setting Up Your Research Group & Developing Its Brand Workshop 3 (Sept 25, 12-1:30): Grant Writing Tips and University Finances for Faculty Workshop 4 (Oct 9, 12-1:30): The Sustainable Professor (Mental Hygiene and Selecting Meaningful Service and Leadership Opportunities) Workshop 5 (Oct 23, 12-1:30): Networking, Finding Mentors, and Managing Personalities Workshop 6 (Nov 6, 12-1:30): Working on Your Dossier (Start Now!) The overall course goal is to increase retention rates and promotion and/or tenure success rates for new faculty at Mines. Questions/comments? Contact Kamini Singha – ksingha@mines.edu

The Pathways Explorations Series features large-scale, TED-style talks where motivating and inspiring speakers tell their personal, academic and professional stories to our Mines campus community. The talks are required for CSM 101 students to learn about the many possible academic and career pathways available to them. The talks are open to all Mines students, faculty and staff, and will be live-streamed and recorded.