New Faculty Workshop
Next workshop: July 23-26, 2025
The New Faculty Workshops focus on sharing and developing essential skills that faculty need to successfully navigate the early years of their research and teaching careers. There is a strong emphasis on implementing active learning strategies in the classroom.听听
Since 2012, more than 680 chemistry faculty have attended the New Faculty Workshops.
Applying
: Available until听May 16, 2025
This is a competitive application process, and unfortunately we are limited in the number of participants we can invite to attend these events.听 We limit each event to a maximum of 30 participants.听 Additional events may be added if there is interest.
This workshop is intended for faculty in the first three years of their first tenure-track or fixed-term position.
If you have questions about your eligibility or the application process, please contact us at nfw@acs.org.
Scholarships
A limited number of full and partial scholarships are available if department funds for professional development aren't available.
Please contact us at nfw@acs.org to request scholarship funds.
Registration & Travel
Once accepted into the workshop, registration must be completed no later by the due date in your acceptance letter.听
Registration fee: $900 covers meals, lodging, and workshop materials.
罢谤补惫别濒:听 For folks flying into DC,听 Ronald Reagan Airport (DCA) is the most convenient to the DC Metro Area and is a short Uber/Lyft/Cab ride to ACS Headquarters.
Resources
- From the University of Virginia,
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- for an inorganic chemistry course (contribution from facilitators).
- guidance.
Testimonials
Facilitating the ACS NFW is giving back and sharing with a new cadre of faculty my experiences and methods I gathered as an attendee (Fall 2019). Most of the active teaching and learning techniques I implement in my courses were ideas gathered from the workshop and have served to create a conducive learning environment for our diverse student body. The experiences shared by the (Fall 2019) facilitators were eye-opening and instrumental in navigating my early years as a faculty. These, and the diversity nuggets received, are my raison d'etre of facilitating ACS NFW.
Dr. Ren茅 Fuanta, NFW Alum
Associate Professor at East Stroudsburg University
I introduced active learning in my chemistry courses when I realized that despite beautiful and 鈥渆ngaging鈥� lectures, students could not demonstrate learning the material. As a facilitator. I love sharing my experiences of transforming my classes, hoping to inspire and help others appreciate the value of active learning. In the process I learn from others.
Professor Milagros Delgado, Florida International University
Very great atmosphere - friendly, welcoming, organizers were incredibly kind, patient, and helpful.
Beyond all the well-crafted sessions, the teaching demonstration was very helpful and informative to practice in a real-world scenario. I really appreciated the facilitators modeling real behaviors that students will display in the classroom.
I facilitate ACS NFW because I believe in the transformative power of teaching for both students and instructors. Teaching is a skill that can be learned, and all instructors deserve access to opportunities to increase their confidence, skill, and satisfaction with teaching.
Dr. Lynn Mandeltort, University of Virginia,听Center for Teaching Excellence
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Sessions included in previous workshops
- Developing and fostering a growth mindset
- Just in Time Teaching
- Backward Design
- Active learning strategies & resources
- Assessment
- Working with students, faculty, colleagues
- Developing a CURE (course based undergraduate research experience)
- Establishing an Inclusive Classroom/Lab Environment
- Supporting and maintaining a safety culture
- Mentoring and being mentored
- Making the most of meaning service activties
We all get a little silly at the end of two full days of workshopping!
Dr. Austin Scharf from Oxford College, a two-year undergraduate campus of Emory University, leads a discussion on assessment.
Dr. Casey Londergan, Haverford College, discussing active learning techniques with participants in the New Faculty Workshop.
Participants discuss their projects with facilitators. Each participant creates a 15 minute active learning module that they can use in their classes.
