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Faculty Support

Faculty Support 

At the ERC, we support faculty in a variety of ways: 

 

Walk-in Help Desk

Our ERC fellows are available throughout the week at the ERC lab's walk-in help desk, providing students with personalized, one-on-one support at any stage of the data analysis process, helping to troubleshoot and guide them through their work.

Attached Fellows

Work with one of our undergraduate fellows who are trained in empirical methods and software tools relevant to your course. Attached fellows attend class sessions occasionally and hold office hours specifically for your class. 

Workshops

Consult with ERC staff about running a workshop (or series of workshops) to help students learn empirical methods or technical tools they may be expected to use for your class. More information about workshops can be found below. 

Faculty Trainings

Contact us about one on one or small faculty group training in empirical methods and technical programs in order to facilitate your own research and teaching. 

Data Consulting 

As part of a new initiative,  we will provide internal project consulting services to any faculty member in need of data-related support in their research. Our staff work closely with faculty members to provide specialized, high-level expertise in any stage of the data analysis process, including data collection, cleaning, analysis, visualization (creating charts and/or maps) and interpretation. 

Summer RA Program

Our Summer RA program provides faculty with 50/50 split funding for fellows with strong quantitative skills in empirical analysis, data analysis and data visualization

Contact us at erc@barnard.edu  to request our services or inquire about our offerings.
 

Workshop/Supplemental Instruction Description

The ERC staff provide supplementary instruction on data skills, techniques, and software in support of learning objectives and course goals. We can provide workshops for tools such as Excel, SPSS, Stata, R, Python (pandas), Qualtrics, Matlab, LaTeX, ArcGIS, and other online GIS software. We can provide workshops on different methods including data visualization, data organization, effective ways of finding data, data literacy, descriptive statistics, inferential statistics, qualitative analysis, comparative analysis, textual analysis, and geospatial analysis.

Workshops can occur during class time or external to class time. When workshops are scheduled outside of class time we offer multiple iterations to accommodate student schedules. Typically, we offer 1 iteration for every 25-30 students in the class.

We also offer supplemental walk-in services, wherein we provide staff during class time that is being used to work on group or individual projects. Students receive our walk-in services delivered to "their classroom door".

This semester, all of our workshops will be virtual. Under usual circumstances, workshops would be hands on and computer based and would be held in the Empirical Reasoning Center's classroom, Milstein 102 (on the first floor of the Milstein Center) unless otherwise specified.

Any faculty, staff, or student affiliated with Barnard's campus can request an ERC workshop.

Ideally requests should coincide with the development of the course and/or assignments to facilitate a seamless crossover between the information of the course and the ERC workshop. The sooner the request is made, the better, so you should let us know your needs as soon as you decide you would like an ERC workshop. However, in cases where this was not an option, we require a 1 week minimum advance notice, with more advance notice necessary during our peak times. Our peak times are September - October and April.

Expectations for Workshops/ Supplemental Instruction

In order for the ERC to effectively provide support for your course, we require the following as a part of our agreement to provide supplemental instruction:

  1. The syllabus including relevant assignment due dates

  2. A copy of the relevant assignment(s) provided at least 1 week before the scheduled workshop time (to give staff the opportunity to familiarize themselves with it)

  3. Course details including: time & date; level and type of course (e.g. first year lecture, senior thesis, etc.); number of students registered/expected

  4. It is highly suggested that workshop requests coincide with the development of the course and/or assignments to facilitate a seamless crossover between the information of the course and the ERC workshop and to ensure the specified assignment/course is appropriate for ERC support

Workshop Requests

Please email Senior Associate Director of the ERC, Fatima Koli, at fkoli@barnard.edu to request a workshop or training session.