Career Mentoring Workshop

for women finishing their PhDs in the mathematical sciences

 

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CaMeW 2009 was held

July 26-28, 2009

at

Wheaton College, Norton, MA

please click HERE for our official webpage.

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Thanks to all the participants, mentors, our kenote speaker Catherine Roberts, Wheaton College and the West Point Department of Mathematics.

CaMeW 2009 was a great success!

Materials from this workshop are found below.  Enjoy!

A group shot of participants and mentors.

Click here to see more photos. 

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Materials from the 2009 workshop

The following links are for presentations from the workshop, materials handed out during the workshop, and other potentially useful information.

• Presentation on The Year Ahead

• Presentation on The Job Search Overview

• Presentation on Interviewing (more notes on interviewing and negotiating)

• Questions for applicants
• Questions to ask on an interview

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Dates

The first CaMeW workshop was held Sunday, August 19th through Tuesday, August 21st 2007 at The United States Military Academy, West Point, NY.

The second CaMeW workshop was held Sunday, July 27th through Tuesday, July 29th 2008 at Wheaton College, Norton, MA.

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Supporting Institutions

Principal funding has been provided by the MAA/Tensor Foundation Program, Wheaton College, the United States Military Academy, the EDGE Program and the Summer Math Program at Carleton College

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Contacts and Personnel for 2009

The junior faculty mentors:

• Rachelle DeCoste (director), Wheaton College, MA, decoste_rachelle@wheatoncollege.edu

• Sarah Frick, Furman University

• Angela Gallegos, Occidental College
  

• Reva Kasman, Salem State College

• Sarah Ann Stewart (co-director), Belmont University

• Ulrica Wilson, Morehouse College

Keynote speaker:  Professor Catherine Roberts, College of the Holy Cross

Senior faculty mentors:

• Maura Mast, University of Massachusetts Boston
• Tommy Ratliff, Wheaton College
• Fred Rickey, USMA
• Uma Shama, Bridgewater State College
• Suzanne Weekes, Worcester Poly Tech

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Additional Links of Interest

If you are interested in this workshop, you might also be interested in the following:

• The AMS employment website which provides links to job ads and all sorts of information about the job search

• The Chronicle of Higher Education which has many columns written by job-seekers as well as job ads, salary information and forums for discussion of many different topics

• The AWM (Association for Women in Mathematics), in particular their Workshops for graduate students and recent PhDs

• Project NExT (New Experiences in Teaching), an MAA program for for new faculty

• The EDGE (Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education) Program, a program for women entering graduate school in mathematics

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