The Researchers at Undergraduate Institutions Section is hosting a session at the upcoming Ecological Society of America annual meeting in Portland, OR. In addition to announcing this event, we are soliciting questions from our audience (whether planned to be in attendance or not) to pose to our panelists. Answered questions will be made available to those interested after the session.
Questions can be submitted via this Google Form: http://tinyurl.com/hw49t4o Session details: WK 34 - Getting the Job at a PUI: Lessons from Department Chairs and Search Committee Members Monday, August 7, 2017: 11:30 AM-1:15 PM D135, Oregon Convention Center Session link to the online meeting program: https://eco.confex.com/eco/2017/webprogram/Session13134.html This session will bring together a panel of individuals with direct experience in making faculty hiring decisions at PUIs—department and search committee chairs—and potential applicants to share experiences and expectations, to reveal the behind-the-scenes logistics of hiring, and to better understand how applicants can demonstrate competencies in the right areas to project a sense of “fit”. This session will help faculty job applicants with limited or no direct experience with primarily-undergraduate institutions (PUIs) to understand associated skillsets that hiring committees value (e.g., course development, institutional service, undergraduate research mentorship) and how these expectations differ across the diversity of PUIs. The panel discussion will be followed by breakout groups where attendees can converse with panelists in a more specific and informal setting. Daniel Scholes, assistant professor of biology, University of Indianapolis Chair, Researchers at Undergraduate Institutions Section of ESA
