Annual Offerings for PD

The Guarini School and The Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning (DCAL) collaborate throughout the year to offer workshops and events for the professional development of graduate students and postdocs. This is not an exhaustive list and we encourage you to check LibCal regularly for new and latest offerings.
For more information about DCAL events for grad students and postdocs, click THIS LINK.
DCAL programs for new faculty, which includes postdocs who teach, are HERE.

Workshops and Events for Graduate Student Professional Development

Activity

Frequency

Audience

Contact

New Faculty Orientation

Annually

All new instructors

Elli Goudzwaard

Course Design Institute

Annually, moving toward more frequently

All instructors

Elli Goudzwaard

Inclusive Pathways for Advancement in the Academy (IPAA) with IDE

Annually

Instructors in their first 3 years at Dartmouth

Chloe Poston (IDE)

TA Orientation - Canvas site and TA Panels 

Canvas site ongoing, advertised with TA panels near start of each term

Graduate student TAs

Cindy Rosalbo

Future Faculty Teaching Series 

winter & spring terms, sometimes summer

Graduate students & postdocs.  Some faculty have joined

Cindy Rosalbo

Learning Community for Future Faculty

Based on interest, as often as monthly

Graduate students & postdocs.  Some faculty have joined

Cindy Rosalbo

1:1 and Group Technology Trainings (via LDT) for Canvas, Zoom, Panopto and Educational Technologies including Hypothesis, Gradescope, VoiceThread, and Slack

As needed, by request

All instructors 

 

1:1 Course and Assignment Design consultations (via LDT)

By request

All instructors 

 

Ongoing schedule of workshops, discussions, guest speakers, learning communities, and events on various teaching topics

Weekly

All instructors and co-curricular educators

Elli Goudzwaard

Small grant funding (currently for design thinking and experiential learning)

As available

All instructors

Mike Goudzwaard

Online 1:1 teaching consultation by request

By request

  

Future Faculty Academic Job Search Series

Annually - Fall (into winter) term

Graduate students & postdocs

Cindy Rosalbo & Kerry Landers (Guarini)

Future Faculty CIMER mentoring series

Still figuring this out

Graduate students & postdocs 

Cindy Rosalbo & Kerry Landers (Guarini)

Faculty CIMER mentoring series

Not begun

Faculty

Jon Kull (Guarini) and Chloe Poston (IDE)

Externships

December

Graduate students

Guarini -Kerry Landers

Guarini Graduate Poster Session/ Graduate Student Appreciation Week of events

April 

Graduate Students

Guarini - Kerry Landers

Guarini Postdoc Research Day (posters and talks)

Between Dec-Mar

Postdocs

Guarini - Cindy Rosalbo

 

Career Development workshops including Resume Writing, CV Writing, Non- Academic Job Searching, LinkedIn Workshops, and Career Exploration

Offered throughout the school year

Graduate students/postdocs

Guarini - Kerry Landers

Guarini Alumni Visits from Academia and Industry

Offered throughout the year

Graduate students and postdocs

Guarini -Kerry Landers

Ethics Training

Fall term

First-year graduate students (departments encouraged to invite postdocs)

Administered through Guarini with Depts

Grant Writing

Fall Term

Graduate Students 

Guarini - Amanda Skinner and GPS with Alan Bieber

Diversity Training

Throughout the year

Graduate students

Administered through Guarini with IDE - Jane Seibel

3 Minute Thesis Competitions

A few competitions during the year

Graduate students

Guarini - Kerry Landers and the Graduate Student Council

Women in Science

Throughout the year

Graduate students postdocs

Guarini and GWISE - Kerry Landers and Jane Seibel

First Generation Workshops

Throughout the year

First Generation College Graduate students and postdocs

Guarini - Kerry Landers

 

On-Campus Recruiting Program with Employer Fairs and intro to Career Services with Handshake

Focused in the Fall but through the academic year

Graduate students

Guarini - Kerry Landers and Center for Professional Development, Tuck, and Thayer

Montgomery Fellow Visitor Lunch Program

Throughout the year

Graduate students and postdocs

Guarini - Kerry Landers

Communication workshops - Speed Researching, Elevator Pitch etc...

Once or twice a year

Graduate students and postdocs

Guarini - Kerry Landers

Mental Health Workshops

Throughout the year

Graduate students and postdocs

Guarini with other depts such as counseling

1-1 Career Counseling

Throughout the year

Graduate students & postdocs

Guarini - Kerry Landers, Cindy Rosalbo

Dissertation Writing

1-2x per year

Graduate students

Guarini and Counseling - Kerry Landers

Graduate Student Clubs - Professional Development such as the Biotech Club, STEM, etc...

Throughout the year

Graduate students 

Graduate Student Council and Guarini - Kerry Landers

Postdoc writing group

Based on cohort interest/schedule

Postdocs

Dartmouth College Postdoc Association and Guarini - Cindy Rosalbo