PFF Annual Schedule

Summer

The Summer Seminar brings advanced graduate students from a variety of disciplines to interact with faculty from UNL and partner institutions to discuss hiring and tenure procedures, professional development, preparing for the job market, constructing research and teaching portfolios, new faculty experiences, the meaning of scholarship at various academic campuses, and challenges and opportunities for the university in the 21st century.

PFF Fellows will enroll in GRDC 900A, GRDC 900B, and GRDC 900D in the Second Five Week Summer Session. The Summer Seminar will meet two afternoons per week during the second five week summer session.

Fall

During the fall semester, each Fellow engages in structured mentoring activities at a partner campus with a faculty member in the Fellow's own discipline. Mentored opportunities include: discussing hiring processes, reviewing candidate application letters; attending a faculty meeting or new faculty orientation program; viewing laboratory and learning centers; observing or perhaps teaching a classroom session; learning about campus assessment initiatives; identifying the range of service activities in a typical faculty portfolio; and/or sitting in on student advising sessions. PFF Fellows and mentors develop an agreement that establishes an individual series of activities during the semester to best acquaint the Fellow with the campus academic environment and mission.

Spring

Fellows may opt for a spring mentoring opportunity at a second campus. Spring placement is not a program requirement.