Supporting Graduate Students and Early Career Colleagues

CEA Welcomes Graduate Students

In a profession undergoing continual change, it is important to find communities of fellows who can offer professional support and encouragement, especially when just starting out. At the CEA, we recognize that teaching and scholarship are collaborative and collegial enterprises. Academics at all levels benefit from participating in knowledge-sharing communities like the CEA.

The CEA is proud of its commitment to our colleagues just beginning their careers in the academy.

Our Executive Board consistently includes members who first joined the CEA as graduate students. Past Presidents, the current Associate Director, and the CEA Critic editor began their affiliations with CEA as graduate students.
Our annual conference encourages the participation of graduate students and early-career professionals in multiple ways, including: a reduced conference rate, panels featuring relevant topics (e.g., navigating the job search, contingent teaching, and writing for publication).
For those attending the CEA Conference, we offer a cash prize for the best essay submitted by a graduate student and publish the award-winning essay in The CEA Critic.

At the CEA conference we sponsor panels, events, and awards specifically for graduate students.

CEA MENTORS

The CEA Mentor Program

CEA Mentors pairs senior scholars and junior faculty with a view to creating connections and strengthening the academic practice of all participants.

In this voluntary program, participants commit to a year of conversation—whether through email, phone conversations, Zoom meetings, or (if there is close proximity) in-person meetings.

How it Works

The CEA Mentor Program

At least once a semester, participants will touch base on subjects related to academics and the academy, which could range from publishing to pedagogy, the job search to tenure and promotion, university governance to work/life balance, and/or course design to classroom management to grading.

The CEA Mentors program aims to provide a space for professional conversation that is supplemented by CEA’s commitment to welcoming all scholars and maintaining a positive esprit de corps.

Timeline

The CEA Mentor Program

Sign Up to Be a Mentor

Mentoring matches are made in late spring, following CEA’s Annual Conference in March. As such, please submit your offer or request by April 10; pairings will last through the following academic year but could renew with mutual agreement.

NOTE: Volunteering to be a mentor and requesting one do not require CEA Membership, but once paired, all participants are expected to be or to become CEA Members

Sign Up to Be a Mentor

We welcome applications from senior scholars—CEA Members with at least 7 years of experience in higher education or a rank of at least Assistant Professor—to serve as mentors. To volunteer, click on the buttonm below. The Google Form will ask you for contact information, affiliation, and a CV, along with areas of specialization and authors/texts of interest. CEA hopes mentors will be able to provide advice, expertise, experience, and a sounding board.

Be a Mentor

Be A Mentoree

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Want to Know More?

We welcome requests for mentors from ABD graduate students, pre-tenure faculty, and those with less than 6 years of experience in higher education. To ask for a mentor, visit The Google Form will ask you for contact information, areas of specialization, a CV, and a few sentences explaining what academic subjects or mentor characteristics would be of most use or benefit to you.

Be a Mentoree

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Want to Know More?

Please contact Ken A. Bugajski, Executive Director of CEA to volunteer as a mentor, request one, or to ask questions about this program.

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Supporting Graduate Students and Early Career Colleagues

CEA Welcomes Graduate Students

CEA MENTORS

The CEA Mentor Program

The CEA Mentor Program

The CEA Mentor Program

How it Works

The CEA Mentor Program

The CEA Mentor Program

Timeline

The CEA Mentor Program

Sign Up to Be a Mentor

Sign Up to Be a Mentor

Sign Up to Be a Mentor

Sign Up to Be a Mentor

Be A Mentoree

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Want to Know More?

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The CEA Critic Supports Graduate Students

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