Sentences with phrase «pff programs»

While the Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) program of the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) and the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) is designed primarily for graduate students, some university PFF programs allow postdocs to participate.

The speakers logged reports about PFF programs from five physics departments nationwide, including the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, where the main goal is for «future faculty to be prepared to be as professional about their roles as educators as their roles as researchers.»

In Crone's program at Minnesota — mechanical engineering — the PFF program took the form of two main courses.

Although about half of the graduate students in her field obtain postdoctoral training before starting faculty positions, Crone was able to move into an assistant professorship directly from graduate school; she attributes this in part to her advanced preparation from the PFF program.

The Minnesota PFF program is part of a national PFF program, sponsored by the Council of Graduate Schools and the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AACU), with support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Pew Charitable Trusts, and a private donor.

Involving 43 doctoral degree - granting institutions and more than 295 «partner» institutions, the PFF program seeks to transform the way future faculty members are prepared for research, teaching, and service.

In its ninth year as a participant in the PFF program for graduate students, Duke is now working on incorporating parallel changes into programs for postdocs and new faculty.

In its first round of funding for the PFF program, the NSF sought to reward institutions that already had pilot projects in place and allow them to» continue innovative work based on past achievements.»

As well as giving her a head start on teaching, Crone says her PFF program taught her how to «assess institutional fit,» gave her practice in things such as preparing statements of teaching and research philosophies, and improved her interviewing skills, all of which «helped tremendously» in her successful search for a faculty position.

Stewart sees the PFF program as «a part of the culture» of the department, which, she says, is changing in a way that will benefit postdocs and new faculty members.

The PFF program allowed all of us interns to experience the work that goes on before the students enter the classroom and after they have left it.

Learn more about the PFF program in this article by Mona Mort.

Not exact matches

Because the infrastructure for PFF courses is already in place, Stewart believes that programs for postdocs could be implemented at «little extra cost.»

Crone attributes her head start to the Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) program, in which she participated during her doctoral work at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

After taking a teaching class and working to develop lectures to bridge the lab experiments and the general class (see Part 1), we postdocs enrolled in the University of Alabama, Birmingham, pilot Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) program began to find our rhythm.

The Philadelphia Film Festival's «PFF On Us» program continues in 2014 with free tickets available for all the films featured in the «American Independents» and «Documentary Showcase» film categories.

All films in this series are a part of the «PFF On Us» free ticketing program.