Feb 10: Academic Contract Negotiation Panel

AWIS Chicago Presents: A Panel Discussion on Academic Contract Negotiation

Are you interested in a career in academic science? Join a panel of female scientists from Chicago area universities for a discussion on what academic contracts are, how institutions handle the negotiation process and learn pointers on how to succeed as a faculty member. This is the final installment of the AWIS Chicago 2009 ‘Effective Negotiation’ Career Development series.

* This event is co-sponsored by the Northwestern University Office of Post-doctoral Affairs.

Topics to be covered in the panel discussion:
-Panelist career paths to their current faculty position.
-Advice to those interested in pursuing a career in academia to position themselves for a tenure-track position.
-Insight into the academic hiring process.
-Information about “traditional” faculty appointment and becoming tenure-track.
-What an academic contract constitutes.
-Whether all universities require contracts.
-Ability to negotiate terms in academic contracts.
-Types of things that can be negotiated in an academic contract. (i.e. funding, laboratory space, teaching appointment, project, collaboration with other labs, hiring practices (for technicians), time off for family, student researcher quota, etc.)
-Situations where negotiation is not allowed.
-Impact of personal life (spouse, children, being single) on academic negotiation.
-Ability to re-negotiate an academic contract.

There will be time during and after the panel discussion for the audience to ask questions of the panelists.

About the Event:
Date: February 10, 2010

Time: 6:30-7:00pm Networking Reception, 7:00-8:30pm Panel Discussion

Location: Baldwin Auditorium, Lurie Cancer Research Center, Northwestern University, Chicago IL. Street parking is available but difficult in this neighborhood. Northwestern’s downtown campus is easily accessible by multiple forms of public transit. View a map of the downtown campus.

Cost: Free for AWIS Chicago members, $5 for non-members at the door. A light dinner will be provided.

Topic: Learn about academic contracts and negotiation from Chicago area female faculty.

The Panelists:

Clodia Osipo, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology/Oncology Insitute, Loyola University. Clodia’s laboratory focuses on understanding mechanisms responsible for drug resistance in breast cancer. She has recently identified that Notch signaling is a novel target pathway that is increased in anti-ErbB-2 targeted treatment resistant breast cancer. The laboratory’s goal is to determine whether combination therapy which include anti-ErbB-2 and anti-Notch inhibitors could prevent or reverse the resistant phenotype.
Michelle Swanson-Mungerson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Midwestern University. Michelle recieved her bachelor degree in Biology from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, followed by her Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology from Loyola Unversity Chicago. At Loyola she studied the effect of norepinephrine on the generation of Th1 lymphocytes. She subsequently trained as a NRSA postdoctoral fellow in the laoboratory of Dr. Richard Longecker at Northwestern University. Her research there examined the effects of Epstein-Barr Virus latent membrane protein 2A on B lymphocyte function. She is currently an Assistant Professor at Midwestern University-Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine where she continues her research on Epstein-Barr virus and teaches medical and pharmacy students.
Sally Horne-Badovinac, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Chicago. Sally is a developmental and cell biologist who performed her graduate work with Didier Stainier at UC San Francisco and postdoctoral work with David Bilder at UC Berkely. She has been an Assistant Professor at The University of Chicago since September 2009. Her lab studies epithelial morphogenesis and organ shape in Drosophila and zebrafish.

Who Should Attend: Scientists interested in learning more about a career as an academic faculty member.

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