The Nevada EPSCoR Early-Career Faculty Retreat is an innovative 2.5-day residential retreat designed to enhance the leadership skills of early-career faculty from the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE). Participants in this workshop will gain career-advancing skills and resources, as well as practices in group facilitation and leadership. Workshop sessions will be led by experts from Nevada and the NSHE. Session topics will address:

Meeting/Classroom Facilitation
Developing significant learning experiences for your students
Time management
Nuts-and-bolts issues about research proposal writing and publishing
Promoting collegiality and successful working relationship
Preparing for the tenure process
Balancing personal and professional life
 
This year’s retreat will be held June 12-14, 2017 on the campus at Sierra Nevada College, in Incline Village, Lake Tahoe, Nevada.  As this is a residential program, lodging will be provided in the campus dorms of SNC.  Meals will also be provided. Reimbursement for airfare and ground travel will be provided to all participants. See travel page for more details.  Please be sure to complete the Participant Application by April 28, 2017 and send your CV to michele_casella@nshe.nevada.edu if you wish to be considered for this opportunity.

* Submit this application by Friday, April 28, 2017. You will be notified of participation by Friday, May 5, 2017 so that you can make your travel arrangements. 
This workshop is sponsored by the National Science Foundation’s Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (NSF EPSCoR), Award #IIA-1301726.

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