- Professional Development Opportunities
- ASA on the Issues: Letter Seeking Funding for Census Bureau
- TRAILS: Access Resources on Health-Related Issues
Professional Development Opportunities
Webinar: Community Colleges. Getting Students Involved in Research, November 4, 2022, 12:00-1:00 p.m. Eastern. How do we inspire students to make new discoveries? With a high proportion of first generation and working-class students, community colleges face heightened face heightened challenges in integrating undergraduate research into the curriculum. Hear real-world examples, explore lessons learned, and get advice on how to advance undergraduate research in the community college curriculum. Panelists include Mike Bossick (Central Piedmont Community College), Amy Pucino (Community College of Baltimore County), Kathy Rowell (Sinclair Community College), and Amy Travers (Queensborough Community College). Free for members. Closed captioning provided. Register here.
Virtual Proseminar for Graduate Students: Starting Your Own Writing Group, October 20, 3:00-4:00 p.m. Eastern. One of the most common pieces of advice graduate students receive is to write, write, and write. However, feeling the constant pressure to write can be overwhelming and creates anxiety — especially when trying to fit in among other obligations. Writing groups are one way to create a writing routine while building accountability and a community of support. This seminar will be led by graduate school coach Katy Peplin, who will share tips on forming and utilizing writing groups to help balance writing obligations and life. Free for members. Closed captioning provided. Register here.
Department Affiliate Webinars. Are you a Department Affiliate? Encourage your chair to join or renew today and take advantage of a robust webinar archive plus new content for Department Affiliates only. Below are some upcoming webinars. Note that Zoom links for both will be emailed to Department Affiliates a few days prior to the webinar.
- Review Ready: Preparing for Program Review, October 20, 3:00-4:00 p.m. Eastern. This ASA panel of experienced program reviewers, including Jeffrey Chin (Le Moyne College), Shirley A. Jackson (Portland State University), and Enrique Pumar (Santa Clara University), will help demystify the review process and provide tips to ensure that your review is successful. Learn how to anticipate potential critiques, center the process around your goals, and reap long-term departmental benefits.
- Internship Programs for Undergrads, December 8, 1:00-2:00 p.m. Eastern. Internships are increasingly becoming a necessary credential for employability. Moreover, they allow students to learn work culture and practice professional networking prior to graduation. Cara Chiaraluce (Santa Clara University), Katie Cooper (University of Tampa), and Danielle Lavin-Loucks (Valaparaiso University) discuss ways to structure these programs in ways that will best serve your students’ educational and professional interests.
Professional Development Videos and Webinars. ASA’s professional development videos and webinars, tailored specifically to sociologists, are a valuable starting point for members to learn about how to approach challenges and enrich their professional life at every career stage. The videos and webinars include a variety of topics such as careers for sociologists in practice settings; academic publishing; writing for clarity and impact; promoting the inclusion and empowerment of sociologists at HBCUs and HSIs, and more. Click here to access the entire suite; you will need to log in.
In each issue of Footnotes, we highlight just one video or webinar that might spark your interest, and we hope you will browse the full library. In this issue, which focuses on mental health, we’re highlighting:
College Students and Mental Health: Strategies for Supporting Students, a Department Affiliates webinar currently available to all members. How can faculty members and department leaders do a better job supporting students in need? Sociologists Shirley Leyro (associate professor at Borough of Manhattan Community College and Mental Health First Aid Trainer) and Yvonne Vissing (professor at Salem State University and National Alliance on Mental Health Trainer) share strategies for responding to students and explore proactive ways that faculty members, departments, and institutions can support student mental health. Please note that although this is a Department Affiliate webinar, we’re making it accessible to all members given the importance of this topic. Click here to access the webinar.
ASA on the Issues: Letter Seeking Funding for Census Bureau
ASA takes public positions on issues related to policy for which there is consensus in the sociological literature or related to matters concerning the well-being of the discipline and profession. Recently, we signed a letter to Congressional appropriators urging them to provide the Census Bureau with the highest level of funding in the final FY2023 CJS bill. You can read about all our advocacy efforts here.
TRAILS: Access Resources on Health-Related Issues
TRAILS is ASA’s peer-reviewed digital teaching resources library and is free to ASA members. This issue of Footnotes focuses on mental health and here are some of the many TRAILS resources to engage your students on health-related issues:
- Using Google Maps to Study Health Disparities in U.S. by Zachary R. Simoni
- Debate: The Medicalization of Childhood Psychiatric Illness by Kristen M. Schorpp
- Identifying Sociological and Psychological Perspectives on Mental Illness by Struther L. Van Horn
