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Postdoctoral Mentoring & Career Services

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Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) Program at VCU

The PFF program offers a series of short courses and professional development opportunities for students interested in pursuing careers in higher education.  PFF courses introduce students to the roles and responsibilities of higher education, address teaching and learning issues in the college classroom and provide supervised internship opportunities.  Postdoctoral scholars at VCU are eligible to take these courses with permission of the PFF program.  Postdoctoral scholars taking these courses may be eligible for tuition assistance.

Additional Career Resources:

The NSF in now requiring mentoring plans in all proposals that include postdoctoral scholars. The following provide examples of such mentoring plans.