Fwd: Conflict Resolution Workshop

[Janet Fischer]

The following events are open to all, Note that the Conflict 
Resolution Workshop is tomorrow, Thursday, April 29!  Thanks,

Janet

>Strategies for Dealing with Difficult People and Situations
>Professor Mary Rowe, MIT ombudsperson and Professor of Management
>Thursday, April 29, 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
>Location MIT Bldg 66 Rm 154
>
>How do you decide which issues are worth addressing or negotiating?
>What is your approach when you need to negotiate or resolve a conflict?
>This session will help you identify your interests and the interests of
>others in a given situation. This framework helps you to determine the
>best possible solutions to a conflict. We will also discuss various
>strategies in conflict resolution and how to choose the best
>approach for negotiation.
>
>Everyone is welcome!
>Bring your lunch; cookies and drinks provided.
>
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>
>American Chemical Society
>Academic Employment Initiative
>
>Give a poster paper at an ACS meeting and have a job interview at the same
>time!
>
>http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/acsdisplay.html?DOC=education\professional\aei.html
>
>If you participate in AEI, your travel expenses to the meeting
>will be covered.
>
>The needed passport to an academic career at a major university is the
>offer of a tenure-track faculty position. For chemists, there are
>well-understood requirements for this passport, namely years of graduate
>study and doctoral research followed by postdoctoral research. However,
>meeting these basic requirements is no guarantee of access to or success
>in an academic career. There are guidelines, to be sure, but no
>guarantees. But in spite of many undefined variables to consider in the
>job search, there are ways to prepare for the process to promote success.
>
>To assist graduate and postdoctoral students, the ACS Office of Graduate
>Education   is participating in a new presidential program called the
>Academic Employment Initiative (AEI). The intent of this program is
>twofold: (1) to give colleges and universities exposure to a larger pool
>of candidates for faculty positions than is possible through current
>recruitment practices; and (2) to provide candidates the opportunity to
>convey their teaching and research goals to a wider audience.
>
>During the fall ACS meeting in Philadelphia in August 2004, those seeking
>faculty positions will present a research poster, or poster expanding on
>their research interests, teaching philosophy, and experience at SciMix,
>the popular interdisciplinary poster session. Faculty recruiters will have
>the opportunity to meet as many candidates as reasonably possible.
>Candidates will also have the opportunity to network among themselves, and
>meet faculty from many more institutions than possible under existing
>practices. Papers should be submitted through the Online Abstract
>Submittal System (OASYS) at http://oasys.acs.org/oasys.htm. The deadline
>for submitting the AEI abstract is April 30.
>
>Not sure how to submit a paper for AEI? Please see the instructions. If
>ou have any other questions please contact aei at acs.org.

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