ABSTRACT. Are you applying for jobs in academia? Are you working on preparing your faculty application materials? In this workshop, faculty share their experiences on the job application, interview, and negotiation process. Additionally, this session will provide tips on how to develop and prepare application materials.

ABSTRACT. Qualitative meta-synthesis is a research practice that brings together the findings from qualitative research literature on a particular topic with the purpose of highlighting common themes across the literature and constructing greater meaning for a field. This pre-conference workshop serves as a mini-course to gain basic skills in qualitative meta-synthesis research and proposal writing for synthesis grants.

Instructors from the Institute for Meta-Synthesis at TERC will introduce several aspects of qualitative meta-syntheses research, including: what is qualitative meta-synthesis; what differentiates literature meta-syntheses from literature reviews; steps to successfully set up a meta-synthesis project; how to identify and collect the literature to be included in a meta-synthesis; data analysis; and writing proposals to fund meta-synthesis projects. The instructors will provide demonstrations and hands-on activities for participants. The session will be fast-paced and informational, but it will be interactive and will have breaks built in. Examples and activities from the session will have a special focus on STEM equity and inclusion literature. The workshop is open to all but may be especially beneficial to scholars who are interested in topics related to equity, inclusion, and/or STEM education. The Institute for Meta-Synthesis is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF/DRL-2024967).

To take full advantage of the workshop, participants should come with a topic that they would like to explore in a meta-synthesis and a few pieces of literature that they are considering for this project. By the end of the workshop, participants will have acquired the fundamental skills to get started on a qualitative meta-synthesis project.

ABSTRACT. This pre-conference arts-based workshop will be facilitated by graduate students and orchestrated by a Penn State professor, who has facilitated numerous arts-based research and teaching projects. The notions of a “commons” and arts-based data visualization will be the focus of the workshop. Buffington, for which the commons is named and the site of the workshop, guided students preparing to be teachers to question whiteness and apply critical race theory to analyze teaching resources. Workshop participants will explore arts-based approaches to data visualization in an exhibition of interactive digital and object-based inquiries.

ABSTRACT. Penn State Professor Shannon Goff will give a tour of a collaborative mural project at Corl Street Elementary. Please meet in the Penn State Patterson building lobby at 3:00 PM. The group will walk over to Corl Elementary for the tour.