It is well known that mentoring activities are critical for successful promotions in the professoriate. Such activities are especially needed for communities for which the numbers at a given institution are very small. The goal of the workshops is to mentor assistant- and associate-level faculty, senior doctoral students, and postdocs in computing about academic careers. The workshops target participants from the following communities:  African Americans/Blacks, Native Americans/Indigenous, Hispanics/Latinx, and People with Disabilities.

The workshops include panels of diverse senior faculty discussing the following topics:

• • Tenure and promotion process
  • Launching a research program
  • Effective teaching strategies
  • Promotion to full professor
  • Effective strategies for proposal writing
  • Affinity Research Group Model for effective research teams

The workshops also include a panel of representatives from different funding agencies and mock proposal review sessions, whereby participants have an opportunity to review actual proposals.  The mock review sessions provide significant insights into proposal writing.

The workshops are organized by CMD-IT, in collaboration with AccessComputing and CAHSI.

Contact:  Valerie Taylor

ACW Workshop Organizing Committee

• Valerie Taylor (University of Chicago)
• Illya Hicks (Rice University)
• Richard Ladner (University of Washington)
• Ann Gates (University of Texas at El Paso)
• Timothy Pinkston (University of Southern California)
• Daniel Garcia (University of California, Berkeley)
• Jeanine Cook (Sandia National Laboratory)

Upcoming Workshop

CMD-IT is organizing a one-day Academic Careers Workshop on Wednesday, September 16, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta, as part of Tapia 2026. The schedule for the workshop is given below.

Navigating the Promotion and Tenure Process
10:00–11:30 a.m.

No-Host Lunch
11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

Effective Teaching
1:00–2:30 p.m.

Successful Proposal Writing
3:00–4:00 p.m

Past Workshops

• 2025 Workshop, June 5-8, 2025 Virtual Workshop
• 2024 Workshop, June 6-9, 2024 at the Hilton Hotel O’Hare in Chicago, Illinois
• 2023 Workshop, July 13-16, 2023 at the IAH Marriott Hotel in Houston, Texas
• 2019 Workshop, May 16-19, 2019 at the IAH Marriott Hotel in Houston, Texas
• 2017 Workshop, April 6-9, 2017 at the IAH Marriott Hotel in Houston, Texas
• 2016 Workshop, April 7-10, 2016 at Hotel Sorella at CityCentre in Houston, Texas
• 2015 Workshop, April 30 May 2015 at Mays Business School’s- CityCentre Campus
• 2014 Workshop, March 27-30, 2014 at the The Allen Center at Northwestern University
• 2013 Workshop, April 11-14, 2013 at the The Allen Center at Northwestern University
• 2012 Workshop, March 15-18, 2012 at the Georgia Tech Global Learning Center
• 2011 Workshop, February 24-27, 2011, in Los Angeles, CA at USC
• 2010 Workshop, March 5-7, 2010 in Houston, TX.
• 2009 Workshop, April 2009 held in conjunction with the Richard Tapia Celebration in Computing Conference