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Friday, March 22, 2013

IDEA - How to Incorporate Your IDEA Results into your Faculty Evaluation Self Reviews

                    10:00 - 11:00 am LIB 302A

What should you do with the IDEA results if you have low response rates or your summaries indicate that the results are unreliable and/or unrepresentative?  John Petraitis, Professor of Psychology and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences will help you understand what this means and provide examples of how you can use these results to document your efforts to continuously examine your effectiveness as an educator.

John Petraitis, Professor of Psychology, will provide recommendations for completing the FIF's and help you understand what the IDEA results mean and provide examples of how you can use these results to document your efforts to continuously examine your effectiveness as an educator.

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Friday, March 29, 2013

 Retention, Promotion & Tenure File Preparation

8:30 - 11:00 am LIB 307

Agenda: 


 Overview of the objectives of the evaluation process and expectations of faculty performance

Faculty Services:   Role of Faculty Services, evaluation timeline and support available

Panel:

  1. Patty Linton, Associate Dean, CAS: an overview of file preparation process: what to include and how to present it
  2. Chair of  University-wide Faculty Evaluation Committee: review process at university level and insight into how files are evaluated

    Q & A

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Friday, "April 19, 2013

FIND that GRANT! 
An Introduction to the SPIN Database

10:30 am - 12:00 pm
LIB 309
Join Deb Mole, the Consortium Library's Foundation Center Collection Supervisor, as she shows you how to search the SPIN (Sponsored Programs Information Network) database. This database is updated daily with funding announcements from federal and state agencies, and corporate, national, and community foundations. There will be plenty of hands-on time for guided searching and creating your SMARTS/GENIUS profile, an alert system that matches your research interests against the SPIN database and sends customized notifications to your email.

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Friday, September 14, 2012

What You Should Know Before Submitting Faculty Development Grant Applications

 9:00  - 9:30 am  LIB 302A
The Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence (CAFE) invites you to join representatives from the Faculty Senate Grants and Leaves Committee and Faculty Services to learn how to put together your application for a Faculty Development or Travel Grant (Due: October 15 or March 15). This session will look at the applications from the perspective of the Grants & Leaves Committee, specifically what they are looking for, how they assign ratings, and how the ratings are presented to the Provost.

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Friday, October 19, 2012

IDEA - How to complete the IDEA FIF forms

9:00 - 10:00 am  LIB 302A                      
John Petraitis will provide guidance to faculty on how to correctly use and fill out the IDEA FIF forms.  There will be a follow-up workshop in the spring semester on how to incorporate the results from IDEA into your evaluations.  Please join us for this important workshop!

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Friday, February 1, 2013

Grant Proposal Basics at UAA

9:00 am - 11:00 am  LIB 306         

Have you considered applying for external funding to support your research project or creative activities but don't know how?  This session will provide you with an overview of how to submit a proposal for extramural funding. Topics to be discussed include: funding opportunity searches; proposal preparation; budget development and justification; compliance issues and UAA's policies, procedures and requirements for the proposal routing process.

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Friday, February 8, 2013

What You Should Know Before Submitting Faculty Development Grant Applications

 9:00  - 9:30 am  LIB 302A
The Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence (CAFE) invites you to join representatives from the Faculty Senate Grants and Leaves Committee and Faculty Services to learn how to put together your application for a Faculty Development or Travel Grant (Due: October 15 or March 15). This session will look at the applications from the perspective of the Grants & Leaves Committee, specifically what they are looking for, how they assign ratings, and how the ratings are presented to the Provost.

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Friday, February 8, 2013

What You Should Know Before Submitting Sabbatical Leave Applications

10:00 - 10:30 am LIB 302A
Learn how to put together your application for a Sabbatical Leave (Due: Last Monday in September) This session will look at the applications from the perspective of the Grants & Leaves Committee, specifically what they are looking for, how they assign ratings, and how the ratings are presented to the Provost.

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Friday, February 8, 2013

THE POWER OF PATENTS

1:00 - 2:30pm
LIB 302A

Whether you're an inventor, an artist, or an entrepreneur starting a business, protecting your intellectual property (IP) can be vital to your success. IP is a valuable asset that can be licensed, bought, sold,and used as leverage in negotiations. Protecting IP is extremely important, and this seminar will provide illustrations using recent cases in the news.

We invite you to attend this seminar to learn more about:

 

  • The importance of protecting your Intellectual Property - and why corporations even enter into patent wars to protect it.
  • The patent process and how to apply for a patent at UAA.
  • Commercializing your IP and the new infrastructure at UAA.

Presented by:

Dr. Helena S. Wisniewski, Vice Provost for Research and Graduate Studies, Dean of the Graduate School  (See Dr. Wisniewski's bio here)

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