The APSA Women’s Research Mentoring Workshop will be held virtually in late Spring 2021. The workshop will be an opportunity for women in all subfields of political science to network with peer scholars and female mentors in their field and receive focused expert feedback on their research. The workshop is sponsored and organized by APSA and funded by the National Science Foundation and APSA.

The events of 2020 and 2021 presented challenges for academic leaders at all levels. Department chairs face particular pressures as the key point of contact for faculty, staff, and students. How can and should department leaders respond during times of political, social, and/or public health crisis? In this APSA webinar Loleen Berdahl (Professor and Executive Director, University of Saskatchewan) will lead a roundtable discussion of this topic with four political science leaders from a range of institutions: Thad Kousser (Professor and Chair, University of California, San Diego), Smita Rahman (Associate Professor and Chair, DePauw University), Cammy Shay (Professor and Faculty Division Chair of Government, Houston Community College), and Robin Turner (Associate Professor and Chair, Butler University). Individuals interested in academic leadership, and particularly present, past and future political science department leaders, are encouraged to attend

Join the American Political Science Association for a virtual conversation on the insurrection, impeachment, and the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for democracy in the United States. This event will bring together experts from across the political science discipline for a conversation followed by audience Q&A. Panelists will bring expertise in political violence and psychology, public policy and democratic citizenship, democratic norms and backsliding, the politics of race, grievance, and democratic citizenship, and civil-military relations.

Looking to improve your online teaching? Join us for a 2-part webinar, Strategies for Success in the Online Classroom, featuring political science educators with expertise in online teaching. We encourage all webinar attendees to watch each of the short presentations and to review the related online teaching materials in advance of the webinar. Then, join APSA for a live, in-depth discussion and Q&A on best practices in the online political science classroom and reflections from the past year of teaching.

Topics of the workshop include 1) Theories of student learning and the joy of teaching 2) Course Design and Assessment 3) The Inclusive Classroom and 4) Creating a teaching portfolio. In addition to learning some tips from the workshop leaders on the art of teaching, participants will draft a syllabus, assignment, and assessment rubric for one course of their choice, as well as practice delivering a short lesson to their peers.

This new 3-week virtual-format dissertation workshop focused on public administration and policy will be co-led by Darrell Lovell (West Texas A&M University) and Daniel Mallinson (Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg).

Alternative programming for students who would have attended the 2020 APSA RBSI Program. Undergraduate students from underrepresented backgrounds will participate in professional development sessions and will have an opportunity to interact with graduate students, faculty and RBSI Alumni across a variety of political science topics.

In this pilot workshop, political science faculty will present on their experiences and practices related to online teaching and will work together to refine or create online teaching resources to share with the broader political science community.