Preparing Future Faculty and Professionals (PFFP) engages current IUPUI graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in a full range of career options, responsibilities, and mentoring in academic and non-academic careers through year-round programming.
Learn about the benefits of participating in the Preparing Future Faculty and Professionals program. Hear from former scholars about their experience and find out how you can become a PFFP Scholar.
Preparing Future Faculty and Professionals
pffp@iupui.edu
IU Graduate School Indianapolis
University Library UL 1170
The Pathways Conference participants engage in seminars, workshops and networking opportunities designed to build awareness, skill and relationships amongst peers and experts. During the conference there will be panels and discussions on career planning, effective mentoring, and our campus 3 MINUTE THESIS & 3 MINUTE PITCH.
The 2024 Pathways Conference is scheduled for November 2024.
More information will be forthcoming.
The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) is a research communication completion developed by The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia. 3MT develops graduate students’ capacity to effectively explain their research in 3 minutes to a non-specialist audience. A great presentation will tell the audience what the research is, how the doctoral researcher is doing it, what they have discovered, and why the research is significant. Graduate students seeking Master’s Degrees (i.e. M.S., M.A., M.P.H., M.P.A, etc.) or Graduate Certificates should register for the 3MP (Three Minute Pitch) competition.
The University Writing Center offers Write Place & Write Space: Write-on-Site Programs. The write-on-sites provide scheduled, recurring times for students to work on their writing projects in a supportive community of fellow writers. It’s a time for writers of all disciplines to come together to talk through their writing, receive support, and make progress on their projects.
Other writing resources:
IUPUI graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty can access multiple free resources for teaching and professional development through the national Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (CIRTL). Visit the IUPUI CIRTL website to learn about campus and national workshops, events, courses and webinars focused on preparing future faculty. Our IUPUI CIRTL program offers several means to document your knowledge and achievements in teaching through a canvas- based curriculum, on campus and online learning communities, and teaching as research program. Our IUPUI and IUB campuses together comprise IU CIRTL. Students and fellows from each campus are encouraged to access CIRTL events at each location as well as the national programming.
PFFP participants have access to resources about dissertation, finding a post-doc,or fellowship, and/or the nuts and bolts of finding a tenure track job offered by the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity.
- Click National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity.
- Click on Join Now
- Select Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis as your institution
- Click the "Active My Membership" button
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