Sentences with phrase «academic faculty members»

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What it's like: Ron Owston, dean of the Faculty of Education at York University in Toronto, was initially surprised at how much time he spent on human resource issues, such as dealing with the concerns of faculty members and mapping out the academic year so professors can handle their course loads.

Our faculty members bring a breadth and depth of knowledge from both the academic and business worlds to the classroom.

Instead, he presents his proposal in the terms of a labor - union manifesto: «It is long past time for faculty members to rise above narrow self - interest, give up the doctrine of academic exceptionalism, and agree to the same terms of employment as everyone else in the workforce.»

Then groups are formed that will last for the academic year, each made up of ten students, a faculty member, and a teaching supervisor closely associated with the social ministry that the students will later serve.

The variety ranges from cases in which faculty elect some members of the board of trustees from among their number, to cases in which faculty as a group is formally charged with certain responsibilities (say, nominating new faculty, or establishing policies governing the academic program of the school), to cases in which faculty effectively have neither responsibility, authority, nor power in the school's polity.

Thus the onus to foster the conversation is awkwardly placed on students or young faculty members, those living in the tensions between the academic and apologetic worlds and who feel the most pressure and enthusiasm for synthetic thinking.

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

«We still need good theology... so we do need good theological colleges with well - trained, committed faculty members, able to publish and supervise higher research; where academic rigour is maintained and we continue to discern how God's word in the Bible speaks today.

One of UCLA's own faculty members has written a historical study of civic life in early modern Philadelphia that is directly germane to my own analysis of his and others» academic lives at UCLA.

What every Christian academic institution needs is not merely faculty members who are Christians in some minimal sense, but scholars who take their Christian faith so seriously that they believe it should be integrated with their scholarship.

These associations, rather than faculty members» own theological schools, are the institutions by which professional academic status and recognition are awarded and acknowledged.

These include the criteria that the academic program be at a «postgraduate» level — that is, that students have completed an undergraduate degree; that there be a certain level of library holdings; that faculty members themselves hold graduate «research» degrees; that there be provisions protecting academic freedom such as academic tenure; and so forth.

The thrust of education at Southern Seminary, therefore, has been solidly academic, and faculty members often drag their feet when someone suggests more deliberate attention to the cultivation of piety.

Both academic and athletic administrators did not believe they had the authority to question how a faculty member structured and taught a course.

Two SUNY Buffalo State faculty members have boldly ventured where few academics have gone before.

Gipson, who was defeated in a re-election bid two years ago by Republican Sue Serino, was listed among the new faculty members at the college for the 2016 - 17 academic year.

Such collaborations are vulnerable, however, as China's academic outposts struggle to keep faculty members capable of designing new AI algorithms from decamping to industry.

As noted earlier, there are fewer high - ranking women faculty members at academic medical centers, so finding established women physician researchers to serve as mentors can be difficult.

The 2007 — 08 Women in U.S. Academic Medicine: Statistics and Benchmarking Report found that, of the 34 % of faculty members who are women, 40 % are assistant professors, 29 % are associate professors, and only 17 % are full professors [4].

Nationally, one third of academic staffers hold only a bachelor's degree (the proportion reaches 60 percent in the new private sector), which indicates that the skill level of many of the faculty members is rather low.

The results, though not surprising, offer a reminder that, with so many people vying for so few tenure - track faculty positions, «trainees need to do more self - analysis of where they are and what the realities are for them to potentially become a faculty member,» says study author Nathan Vanderford, an assistant professor of toxicology and cancer biology and assistant dean for academic development at the University of Kentucky in Lexington.

Support from WUSTL faculty members was also essential, since students and postdocs need to balance their BALSA commitments with their academic responsibilities.

This is partly a result of the fact that, on average, men have attained a higher academic degree (42 % of female and 24 % of male faculty members have a master's degree as their highest) and partly a result of where they work (more women work at 2 - year institutions and colleges, where teaching is the primary mission).

«I knew that not all people in the academic world would understand what a chief scientific officer was or how that experience would help me as a faculty member,» says Fetrow.

Because most faculty members were cloned from their graduate advisers and academic research is all they know, as a group they can offer little help to someone with «alternative» interests.

I did not want to commit to such an extensive job search just yet; I was enjoying my current environment, especially pursuing unconventional industry - academic collaborations that I could continue to foster as a faculty member.

By a vote of 1628 to 26, members of the statewide union of so - called academic student employees ratified the 3 - year contract granting them an immediate and retroactive 1.5 % pay increase, future pay hikes tied to faculty raises, and continued complete remission of tuition and fees (including health care fees) despite recent, sharp increases in these charges.

These decisions follow an investigation that revealed serious violations of University policies and values governing the behavior of faculty members in an academic environment.

* Having previously served as a faculty member, a division chair, and an academic administrator, Dr. Trower is currently a researcher at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education.

When it finally accepts students in 2012, the Okinawa Institute for Science and Technology (OIST) aims to provide a new model of a Japanese research university, scrapping the division into traditional academic departments, focusing on interdisciplinary research, conducting business in English, and drawing roughly half of its faculty members from overseas.

That certainly was the case for Ann Kinzig, a junior faculty member in urban ecology at Arizona State University (ASU), who spent the 1998 - 99 academic year in Washington, D.C., as a Roger Revelle Fellow in Global Stewardship.

In addition to the struggle to find funding, the founder of the IR, Jimmy Reddoch, anticipated that some faculty members might view the presence of «industry» groups in an academic setting as inappropriate.

Job Responsibilities: I act as the chief academic officer of the school and provide leadership to over 100 faculty members and 2,400 students.

But today, however, few young PhDs can get started on the career for which their graduate education purportedly trained them, namely, as faculty members in academic research institutions.

He even spent two years in academic computing at Arizona, where Ms. Annas is now a senior faculty member.

I used the PDN database to locate other offices and check on their programs, I looked at other NIH intramural programs, and drew from my own experiences as a postdoc at NIEHS [National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences] and as a faculty member at an academic institution.»

Reif, who has been an MIT faculty member since 1980, became the institute's chief academic officer in 2005.

Leading the group's work are two faculty members, Elizabeth Watkins, dean of the Graduate Division and vice chancellor for student academic affairs at the University of California, San Francisco, and Peter Espenshade, associate dean for graduate biomedical education at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Nevertheless, upon entering the biomedical academic career track, black and white faculty members are equally likely to be tenured at institutions that grant doctorates and at Research I institutions.

In this role, he provides support and guidance for faculty members in developing fulfilling careers as researchers, teachers, clinicians, and academic administrators.

This is likely due to 1) lack of well - informed and qualified faculty members to initiate and develop specialized curricula on these topics and 2) a belief that job training is the responsibility of prospective employers, not academic researchers.

After 29 years of fulfilling the responsibilities of a science faculty member, administrator, and mentor to younger scientists, Johnson describes his experiences, from his early days as an assistant professor to his transition to administration, and offers advice to academic scientists who are just starting out.

All its faculty members are expected to carry out research, and like all academic scientists they have to be proactive in seeking external funding for this purpose.

Proctor tells Next Wave Canada that she hears many complaints from junior faculty members about the heavy teaching load (the university requires assistant professors to teach 5 courses per academic year), large class sizes, and extensive administrative duties early in their careers.

'' [Weber and Curry] may have different views on climate change, but I think that's a strength of our department that we can have academic freedom and host faculty members with different opinions about subjects,» Huey said.

«There have been a variety of recent controversies dealing with academic freedom, and it's really striking to see faculty members speak up and very sincerely believe that they are absolutely protected in their speech,» he said.

Start - up grants were also available for the 15 young faculty members I recruited as I built two new academic departments at the Dana - Farber Cancer Institute.

Increasing emphasis on «translation» in academic life science focuses more research on applications and encourages universities to hire faculty members with a practical bent — and, often, industrial experience.

But for favored faculty members, academic stardom can translate into other rewards as well: astronomical pay, fancy digs near campus, second homes in exclusive vacation spots, and celebrity far beyond the boundaries of one's discipline or campus, according to a pair of intriguing articles by Christopher Shea in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

University Professionals of Illinois, the union that covers EIU faculty members, had already negotiated the pay raise for the faculty when, in mid-July, the university abruptly cancelled the appointments of the 29 adjunct faculty members, who had already signed letters of intent for the coming academic year, reports Inside Higher Ed.