FFAR Director and Graduate Director
Overall Responsibilities
- FFAR FELLOWS PROGRAM
- Recruitment of participants
- Application process
- Financial transfers
- Allocation of program funds
- Training workshops, face-to-face and virtual
- Information flow and relationship with funder
- Website presence
- Communication to students, mentors, advisors
- CALS GRADUATE PEER MENTORS PROGRAM
- Recruitment of participants
- Application process
- Training workshops, face-to-face and virtual
- Communication to peer mentors
- GRADUATE STUDENT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
- Teach ALS602
- Liaison with and support graduate school professional development staff
- Available to support CALS program-level professional development needs
- MISCELLANEOUS
- Graduate student data and recruitment:
- Obtain, summarize, and distribute data on graduate student completion and prof dev activities
- Create program-level recruitment cards
- Attend graduate student recruitment events as needed (upcoming: REEU July 30, 2020)
January – DecemberMonthly webinars for each FFAR Fellows cohort (arrange and manage)
January – AprilALS602 Course
March-AprilSelect FFAR Fellows
March
FFAR Year 3 Residential session (beginning 2021)
Manage 360 assessments for FFAR Fellows
April
Recruit/select CALS Peer Mentor group
FFAR Year 1 UIC session
May – October Solicit documents for fellows sponsorships
June FFAR Year 2 Residential session
July REEU grad student recruitment event
August FFAR Year 1 Residential session
October FFAR Year 2 UIC session