For the next installment of our ongoing feature about the most memorable and rewarding features of the annual NYCEA conference, board member Scott O'Neil shares a few thoughts about one of newest and most distinctive events: the graduate student round-table events. In Scott's words:
NYCEA has always had a wide range in panels, covering both literature and pedagogy, and stretching across the entire canon chronologically, with papers ranging from Anglo-Saxon to Buffy the Vampire Slayer. There is one recurring panel that, as a graduate student, stands out to me. For the last three years, NYCEA has featured a grad student professionalization panel. This concept really began at the 2012 conference, when NYCEA ran a panel on “Teaching at a small college.” I think even then that they were surprised at the turnout. The panel was VERY early in the morning, and the panelists had a full house of graduate students eager to ask questions. The panels returned as a regular feature three years ago, and since then, NYCEA has had grad student roundtables on structuring the C.V. for teaching-centered schools (2014), understanding university service (2015), and preparing for the job talk/teaching demo (2016). These panels started out as a one-off concept to address a perceived need (giving grad students a better sense of the needs and realities of the teaching centered job market), and they have now become a regular feature designed to help grad student members of the organization professionalize. This attitude reflects NYCEA’s approach to viewing graduate student members as equal members—and as a grad student board member, I can personally attest to how welcoming that has been. The grad student round table at NYCEA 2017 is going to focus on preparing the C.V. for Alt Ac job prospects. Leave a Reply. |
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