The Computing Research Association

• About
  • CRA's Mission
  • Bylaws
  • Annual Reports
  • Board of Directors
  • Nominees Sought for CRA Board
  • Executive Officers
  • CRA Staff
  • Current Members
  • Membership Information
  • Membership Dues Schedule
  • Committees
  • Projects
• Awards
  • A. Nico Habermann Award
  • Distinguished Service Award
  • Outstanding Undergraduate Award
  • Service to CRA Award
• Resources
  • Computing Research News
  • Taulbee Survey
  • Forsythe List
  • Reports on Research Issues
  • Labs and Centers Profiles
  • Best Practices Memos
  • Workforce Reports
  • Related Computing Research Societies
  • CRA in the News
• Events
• Govt. Affairs
  • Policy Blog
• Jobs

for Faculty

This page contains information of special interest to faculty in the areas of Career Building, Departmental Oversight, Getting Involved

Career Building

• CRA's Job Announcements is one of the best places to find positions available to computing researchers.

• Taulbee Survey provides salary and demographic data for faculty in CS & CE;

• CRA's Forsythe List of North American departments granting Ph.D.s in CS & CE can be used to find department websites and contact information.

• CRA Career Mentoring Workshop aids graduate students and junior faculty as they choose or begin their careers.

• CRA-W Career Mentoring Workshops for men and women starting academic careers.

• Computing Postdoc Job Opportunities: a byproduct of the CIFellows Project, this online service allows employers to post available postdoc jobs.

• Computing Postdoc Profiles: also byproduct of the CIFellows Project, this online service allows candidates to post available postdoc jobs.

Departmental Oversight

• CRA's Best Practices Memos has information you (and your future department) should know.

• Taulbee Survey provides salary and demographic data for faculty in CS & CE;

• CRA's Forsythe List of North American departments granting Ph.D.s in CS & CE can be used to find department websites and contact information.

• A set of slides on "Why choose a Ph.D. in CS?" (440 KB PDF)
  Please feel free to use these.

• The Graduate Student Information Guide (213 KB PDF) is filled with advice on planning for graduate school. Although written for women, this is an excellent guide to anyone considering advanced study.

• A number of articles on computing research labs and centers have been collected from back issues of Computing Research News.

Getting Involved

• Computing Research News, CRA's Policy Blog can keep you up to date on issues facing the CS & CE research communities.

• Attend the Workshop for New Department Chairs at the next CRA Conference at Snowbird its agenda

• CRA's Forsythe List of North American departments that grant Ph.D.s in fields related to computing research.

• Computing Research News and CRA's research policy blog.

• Visit CRA's Government Affairs pages and join the Computing Research Advocacy Network

• Policy-related news also is posted on the CRA research policy blog.

• Nominate faculty for the: A. Nico Habermann Award

• Nominate faculty for the: CRA Distinguished Service Award

• Apply to host the CRA-W Distinguished Lecture Series which sends faculty and industry researchers to campuses to encourage women and minorities to attend graduate school.

• Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates (DREU)
  - (see also the Canadian DMP program);

• Collaborative Research Experience for Undergraduates (CREU)

• Nominate undergraduates who show outstanding research potential for the CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Award

• Participate in the Computing Community Consortium: the CCC seeks to mobilize the computing research community to identify major research opportunities for the field.

• Volunteer to serve on a CRA Committee by contacting CRA's Executive Director (Andrew Bernat, abernat [at] cra.org).

• Make sure that your department is a member of CRA.