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Resources
Department Policies
To get a new course approved or an existing course changed, follow the flowchart.
Faculty Development
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute publishes a handbook for beginning researchers in the medical sciences that is useful for other scientists as well who are in the early years of their careers. The book is called Making the Right Moves: A Practical Guide to Scientific Management for Postdocs and New Faculty.
Mentoring
Mentoring International Students: ESL Resources for students have links to web pages that help non-native speakers to improve their English.
Online Writing Lab
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute publishes a handbook on mentoring undergraduate students. This is based on a training program developed by Professor Jo Handelsman from Wisconsin.
The book "How to Do Ecology: A Concise Handbook," authors Karban and Huntzinger provide solid advice to ecology graduate students on how to develop a successful thesis and research program.
Proposal Writing
The National Science Foundation has published a Guide for Proposal Writing.
Susan Finger (Carnegie Mellon University) has advice for writing proposals to the National Science Foundation.
Public Impact
The Bell Museum provides a list of broader impact opportunities that foster Public Understanding of research.
Research
Bell Museum's Scientific Collections are a resource for researchers around the world to discover and organize biological diversity through systematics research.
The Journal of Young Investigators (www.jyi.org) is a monthly on-line journal that publishes new research and feature articles by undergraduate and high school students in science, mathematics, and engineering. The journal is student-led and research articles are peer-reviewed.
Sabbaticals
The University of Minnesota has both single-semester leaves and sabbatical leaves. Probationary faculty can apply for a single-semester leave after two academic years of service, tenured faculty are eligible after four academic years of service. Single-semester leaves need to be approved by the College. A faculty member is eligible for a sabbatical leave after six academic years of service. For further information consult the Faculty Development Leaves Policy.
To apply for a single semester leave, submit the Faculty Single Semester Leave form to the department head.
To apply for a sabbatical leave submit the Faculty Sabbatical form to the department head.
A single semester leave is at full salary. A sabbatical leave is compensated at one-half salary and full benefits. Faculty may compete for supplementary funding through the college. These funds are very limited. A faculty member who is planning to take a sabbatical leave is encouraged to seek outside funding. Application deadlines for outside funding are often due more than a year before funds become available.
Support
The University of Minnesota offers International Program faculty travel grants.
Teaching
Understanding Cultural Differences: The Writing Across Borders website at Oregon State University aims to help faculty and writing instructors to work with international students.
The Center for Teaching and Learning Services at the University of Minnesota publishes a monthly newsletter on teaching related
issues. See the newsletter.
A TA's Guide to Teaching Writing in All Disciplines is a short book that provides advice to teaching assistants to teach and evaluate writing. It has a companion web page with additional resources.
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