Call for Applicants
CIES 2009 New Scholars Workshop
Monday and Tuesday, March 23 - 24, 2009 (8:00 a.m. - 3:45 p.m.)
Purpose of Workshop
Every year CIES holds a New Scholars Workshop at the annual CIES conference. This all-day workshop is a unique opportunity for Ph.D. and Ed.D. students to discuss their dissertation research with other doctoral students and experienced scholars in the field. This will improve your work and it will strengthen links between international education programs.
Time/Format of Workshop
The doctoral candidate workshop will begin at 8:00 a.m. and end at 3:45 p.m. on either Monday or Tuesday, March 23 - 24, 2009. In order to allow the greatest number of new scholars to participate, students will be selected to participate in ONE full day. The workshop will consist of formal presentation sessions, each followed by a feedback period, to allow participants adequate time for constructive discussion with students and resource faculty. A group luncheon for all workshop participants will be held between the morning and afternoon sessions. Candidates are required to participate the entire day.
Travel Grant
Out of those invited to participate in the New Scholars Workshop, twenty participants will be selected to receive $200 for travel support to attend the 2009 CIES Annual Meeting in Charleston, South Carolina. If you are applying but have found other travel support, please state this on your application so that we can allocate the resources to students who are not so fortunate. Upon acceptance to the workshop, participants will be given additional information about the travel grant.
For the remainder of applicants selected without travel grant, you will still have the same opportunities to interact with other doctoral students and leading CIES faculty. However, due to limitations in the budget there will be no travel grant available.
Qualifications for Applicants:
ˇ Student member of CIES, registered or planning to register for the 2009 CIES Annual Meeting in Charleston, South Carolina.
ˇ Doctoral candidate between the dissertation proposal stage and early writing stage as confirmed by your faculty advisor.
ˇ Student has not previously participated in a New Scholars Workshop.
ˇ Commitment to the all-day (8:00-3:45 p.m.) workshop.
ˇ Students are required to read and engage substantively with other participants work both prior to and at the workshop.
ˇ Participation is dependent on meeting all expectations.
Please include the following information:
ˇ Title of dissertation.
ˇ Name, mailing address, email address, and telephone number.
ˇ Institutional affiliation.
ˇ Four keyword descriptors of the dissertation research.
ˇ 500 word abstract. Abstracts should also include the following:
o Name of your dissertation faculty chairperson.
o Anticipated stage in program (i.e., dissertation proposal stage, beginning writing stage, etc.) at the time of the conference.
ˇ If selected, you will later be asked to submit a draft doctoral dissertation proposal and three open-ended questions that you have regarding your dissertation proposal. The dissertation proposal will be circulated to all members of the workshop. You will be required to read all and to prepare comments on a subset of those proposals. The dissertation proposal must be no more than 2,500 words.
Proposal Submission/Deadline
The on-line submission system will open in mid-October 2008 and may be accessed through the CIES conference web site at http://www.tc.edu/cies2009.
Deadline Date Acceptance Notification
Early Bird November 1, 2008 November 30, 2008
Final December 1, 2008 January 15, 2009
Applications received by the early bird deadline have a greater chance of being accepted into the New Scholars workshop. Decisions regarding proposals will be sent by e-mail.
2009 Faculty Mentors
Faculty Workshop Mentors
ˇ David Chapman, University of Minnesota (chapm026@umn.edu)
ˇ Joan DeJaeghere, University of Minnesota (deja0003@umn.edu)
ˇ Val Rust, UCLA (vrust@cox.net)
ˇ Frances Vavrus, University of Minnesota (vavru003@umn.edu)
ˇ Ruth Hayhoe, OISE/UT (ruth-hayhoe@sympatico.ca, hayhoe@bellsouth.net)
ˇ Victor Kobayashi, University of Hawaii (victor.kobayashi@gmail.com)
ˇ Vandra Masemann, OISE/UT (masemann@interlog.com)
ˇ Diane Napier, University of Georgia (dnapier@uga.edu)
ˇ David Phillips, Oxford University (david.phillips@educational-studies.oxford.ac.uk)
ˇ Jim Williams, GWU (jhw@gwu.edu)
Faculty Proposal Reviewers
To maintain the integrity of the anonymous review system, neither the names of the individuals nor their institutions will be divulged. However, it will be noted that all faculty proposal reviewers are long-standing CIES members and include past Presidents of CIES.
Additional Conference Information
Regularly updated information on the 2009 CIES Annual Conference will be featured on the official website http://www.tc.edu/cies2009. We invite you to visit this site often. If you have additional questions, please contact the New Scholars Workshop Committee Co-chairs (Linda Furuto: lindafuruto@hotmail.com or Rhiannon Williams: will1395@umn.edu).
Note: This workshop is made possible by faculty and student member volunteers, and is funded directly by the CIES Secretariat.