Sentences with phrase «many junior faculty»

Guthrie figures he would have had to cut research funds for faculty, summer salaries for junior faculty, and other expenses.

Our studies of graduate students and junior faculty show that they often view themselves as service providers rather than professors on a long - term mission.

In only one or two cases did sponsored faculty in good jobs mess up so badly that their colleagues did not want to retain them; and in only one or two instances did junior faculty manage to overcome the handicap of appointment to a junk job.

We also noticed that some junior faculty had been carefully chosen for their potential to fit the school's culture; these usually got a lot of attention from powerful senior faculty after they arrived.

We also interviewed cohorts of junior faculty in three theological schools over a three - year period, as well as assorted junior faculty in other seminaries.

After reassuring that enough qualified applicants are available, she warns of the current dangerous practice of replacing full - time tenured faculty with part - time adjunct faculty, and the importance of seminaries nurturing faculty members» sense of vocation, particularly junior faculty.

The single least expected and most significant finding of our study of junior faculty was that their success — defined as tenure or extension of contract — is a function not of how well they perform but of decisions the institution makes before they arrive.

Often when junior faculty start their independent career, they feel like they are on their own.

A new program aims to launch the careers of diverse life scientists — including women and members of other underrepresented groups — by providing up to 8 years of support, covering both the postdoctoral training and junior faculty stages.

It is risky even for postdocs and junior faculty members aiming to secure a position or promotion, since ultimately you have to show productivity, John says.

Ansari found refuge with some junior faculty members and postdocs in Dartmouth's Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences.

A recent posting for a tenure - track junior faculty position in my department attracted more than 200 applications, a frightening number in and of itself.

«I don't think we should be asking students and junior faculty to do that.

He accepted a post as assistant department chair for neurobiology and sociology at Northwestern University, a nontenure - track junior faculty post.

The Chicago Guide to Your Academic Career: A Portable Mentor for Scholars From Graduate School Through Tenure, by John Goldsmith, John Komlos, and Penny Schine Gold (University of Chicago Press, 2001), aspires to give graduate students and junior faculty a candid introduction to an academic career

But junior faculty members also have much to offer to graduate students.

The motivations most frequently cited by investigators who withheld data were that sharing required too much effort (80 %) and that scientists needed to protect the ability of a graduate student, postdoctoral fellow, or junior faculty member to publish (64 %).

Some people, including Hudson, move directly from junior faculty into administrative work, bypassing those painstaking steps up the faculty ranks.

It was probably a very dangerous thing to do if you were a junior faculty who might be looking for tenure, let's say.

You've heard good, bad, and ugly stories from postdocs as they navigate the murky area between the roles of student and junior faculty, between trainee and professional, and between apprentice and employee, often with the burdens of each role and the benefits of none.

By most accounts, the limited funds for the hiring of postdocs and junior faculty make such positions competitive, and this holds true for the neurosciences.

When I started, there was only one other junior faculty member.

For junior faculty members, tenure was a formidable hurdle, and only a few won it.

Junior faculty members are hired with the expectation that they will obtain tenure, and mentoring committees work diligently toward this end.

So when a junior faculty member with a 1 - year - old daughter is invited to speak at a prestigious international conference and her partner isn't available for childcare, what should she do?

Thus, many new «junior faculty» are funded individuals wanting (or needing) to leave their institutions.»

The low minority representation in mentoring positions in science directly dictates the feeling of isolation that most minority students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty experience.

The situation is equally difficult for postdocs trying to make the jump to a junior faculty position or a permanent job at a national lab.

She has guided junior faculty members and department chairs.

As junior faculty members, we believe that tenure will bring peace.

Universities across the United States and Europe are increasingly reshaping recruitment policies in order to attract and retain more junior faculty.

Many junior faculty, especially women in the sciences, say that they fear being stigmatized if they take advantage of such provisions.

She recently completed a national survey of doctoral candidates and junior faculty that examines how they make choices about working within or outside of the academy and what factors they use when deciding among more than one academic offer.

Young and junior faculty members should obtain» Adviser, Teacher, Role Model, Friend: On Being a Mentor to Students in Science and Engineering», National Academy Press, 1995.

A U.S. Appeals Court ruling in a University of Chicago case has lowered the barrier for court review of claims by postdoctoral students and junior faculty that they have been denied financial rewards from discoveries in which they have participated.

You finally landed that junior faculty job, hired a technician and a postdoc, and signed up a couple of graduate students to help take you and your lab boldly into the new millennium.

Although the original specification of the funding was to enhance graduate student education, Stewart says it is clear that «we do need to provide these opportunities for postdocs and to mentor junior faculty.»

To counter similar problems in his own institution, Jack Child, director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at American University in Washington, D.C., pairs new junior faculty members with established faculty members in departments other than their own.

To help you get started you might want to get a copy of a lab set - up list from another junior faculty member in your area of research who has recently set up his or her own lab.

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.

So you battled through your postdoc position and landed a junior faculty spot in the university of your choice.

And yet, junior faculty — with good reason — are increasingly being judged on their aptitude as teachers, not only as researchers.

«As an untenured junior faculty member, there's a lot of pressure,» Motyl says.

Aside from the satisfaction of nurturing students who go on to excel in their chosen field, mentoring helps to establish junior faculty within the scientific community, attract and retain new students, and generate consistently good research.

In science, mentors can be other postdoctoral fellows, technicians, junior faculty, or established investigators or professors — essentially anyone willing to share their knowledge, experiences, and enthusiasm.

«There are certain phases when you need more mentoring, such as when you're an undergraduate or graduate student or when you're a junior faculty member,» she says.

After earning bachelor's degrees in chemistry, they became junior faculty members at Johnson C. Smith and Howard universities (Bill) and Morehouse College (Larry).

One spring day some decades ago, while I was serving as a very junior faculty member at what was then called a predominantly Negro college, a student asked me for advice.

A prime example is a candidate who wants to work with a talented but junior faculty member who has but a short view of the career trajectory and not much of a track record.

To answer that question, Basson and a team of colleagues, which includes Dr. William P. Newman, chair emeritus of the SMHS Department of Internal Medicine, and Dr. Daniel Persinger, a surgical resident at the time the research was performed and currently an SMHS junior faculty member in surgery, got to work.