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SUMMARY:Brown bag: Jonathan Shi
DESCRIPTION:Title: Review articles and policy reports relevant to the
	 grad student experience\nSpeaker: Jonathan Shi\nAbstract: Okay\, since
	 we're doing such a bad job of finding faculty speakers lately\, your
	 favorite 6th-year theory student brown bag czar will host a reading and
	 discussion session\, satisfying the professional development objective
	 of the brown bag seminar series!\n\nI've listed a few articles of
	 interest below. Please make a vote in this quick poll  on which ones
	 you'd be most interested in discussing. I'm gonna print out copies for
	 everyone\, so please have your votes in by 11am.\n\nThe plan for
	 tomorrow will be 5 minutes of coordination\, 30 minutes of
	 reading/discussing in small groups\, and 20 minutes of discussion
	 between groups.\n\n\nNAS report on institutional and cultural changes
	 that would improve graduate education in STEM fields (including making
	 the system less university-centered and more
	 student-centered):\nhttps://www.nap.edu/catalog/25038/graduate-stem-educa
	tion-for-the-21st-century\n\"Graduate STEM Education for the 21st
	 Century\" (pages 3-7 and 105-123; possibly also 127-137)\n\nCRA memos on
	 best practices\, including the role of teaching faculty\, how to
	 incentivize impact over publication\, the role of postdocs\, and the
	 evalution of interdisciplinary
	 faculty:\nhttps://cra.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Teaching-Faculty-BP-
	Memo.pdf\n\"Laying a Foundation: Best Practices for Engaging Teaching
	 Faculty in Research Computing Departments\" (6
	 pages)\nhttps://cra.org/resources/best-practice-memos/incentivizing-quali
	ty-and-impact-evaluating-scholarship-in-hiring-tenure-and-promotion/\n\"In
	centivizing Quality and Impact: Evaluating Scholarship in Hiring\,
	 Tenure\, and Promotion\" (3
	 pages)\nhttps://cra.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Computer_SciencePostdo
	cs_Best_Practices.pdf\n\"Computer Science Postdocs -- Best Practices\"
	 (11
	 pages)\nhttp://archive2.cra.org/uploads/documents/resources/bpmemos/bestp
	ractices.promotions_.tenure_.pdf\n\"Promotion and Tenure of
	 Interdisciplinary Faculty\" (6 pages)\n\nAAUW report on why women in
	 STEM are underrepresented and what can be done to change
	 that:\nhttps://www.aauw.org/files/2013/02/Why-So-Few-Women-in-Science-Tec
	hnology-Engineering-and-Mathematics.pdf\n\"Why So Few?: Women in
	 Science\, Technology\, Engineering\, and Mathematics\" (3 page executive
	 summary\, Chapter 1 \"Women and Girls in STEM\" 27 pages\, Chapter 10
	 \"Recommendations\" 5 pages)\n\nReview article in educational psychology
	 on the persistent myth of \"minimally guided
	 instruction\":\nhttp://www.cogtech.usc.edu/publications/kirschner_Sweller
	_Clark.pdf\n\"Why Minimal Guidance During Instruction Does Not Work: An
	 Analysis of the Failure of Constructivist\, Discovery\, Problem-Based\,
	 Experiential\, and Inquiry-Based Teaching\" (9 pages)\n\nEducational
	 psychology article discussing the large difference in cultural
	 associations and understanding attached to the concept of \"learning\"
	 in U.S. and Chinese
	 cultures:\nhttps://psycnet.apa.org/record/2003-00780-005\n\"U.S. and
	 Chinese Cultural Beliefs About Learning\" (9 pages; get full text from
	 Cornell Library catalog)\n\nA discussion of when and how selecting a
	 diverse group of problem-solvers might be better than selecting a group
	 of individual
	 high-performers:\nhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC528939/\n\
	"Groups of diverse problem solvers can outperform groups of high-ability
	 problem solvers\" (5 pages)\n\nOverview of the advice that prominent
	 researchers in a variety fields would like to give to early-career
	 scientists\, summarized into the \"keys\" of relationships\, passion\,
	 resilience\, leadership\, strategy\, balance\, and
	 integrity:\nhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1097276518
	30786X\n\"Cultivating the Human Dimension in Research\" (4 pages)
LOCATION:Gates 122
UID:2019-02-05
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DTSTART:20190205T170000Z
DTEND:20190205T180000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190204T231337Z
ORGANIZER;CN=Jonathan Shi:http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~jshi/brownbag/
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