Sentences with phrase «career at an academic institution»

Overall, our training programs are designed to prepare students for a teaching or research career at an academic institution, in industry or in government.

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Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

The easiest option may be for you to visit the careers service at your institution, even though I must warn you that the degree to which a university careers service can help an academic may be very variable.

More than two - thirds of IRACDA graduates end up in academic careers, most of them at teaching - focused and minority - serving institutions.

Academic careers pose tripartite demands of research, teaching, and service; at many institutions — perhaps the majority — professors find that campus time is taken up mostly by the latter two, leaving research and writing for evenings and weekends — time that women need to keep up their homes and raise their families.

In the search process anyone you ask for guidance, from your academic adviser to counselors at your institution's career resources department, will tell you, «Get out there and network.»

Instead of only applying to the top large research institutions, Blaser recommends that graduate students and post docs interested in academic careers look for job vacancies at small to mid-sized institutions.

Legge 133/08 also requires public institutions to reduce their costs for nonmanagerial permanent staff — a category that includes researchers on the first rung of the academic career ladder and technicians — by at least 10 %.

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.

Not all scientists at the conference intend to struggle for an academic position; those interested in alternative career paths met representatives of industry and nonacademic research institutions at a series of workshops.

In most cases, it is next to impossible for a U.S. citizen to work as a paid member of the scientific staff in a career position at either an academic institution or European laboratory such as a Max Plank institute or the European synchrotron light sources.

We at Science Careers see little ethical equivalence between the chattel slavery practiced in the United States before 1865 and employment in an academic institution, but there is a coincidental connection: Seven years (the approximate length of the average biomedical Ph.D.) plus 5 years (the maximum allowable time for a postdoc supported by the National Institutes of Health, and the length of many postdocs these days) equals 12 years.

Wendy Ingram, who co-founded a well - being and mental health peer support network when she was a graduate student at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, after a dear friend in her program died by suicide due to depression, agrees that «more academic institutions are taking steps to tackle mental health issues,» she writes in an email to Science Careers.

For instance, if your career fair is going to include graduate students, then your task is relatively simple: You target academic departments at your institution or at surrounding universities.

Faculty ranked their agreement with statements such as «There is visible leadership at my institution for the support and promotion of diversity on campus,» «My department colleagues do what they can to make personal / family obligations and an academic career compatible,» and «My department colleagues «pitch in» when needed.»

Among the thousands of participants who engaged in professional education at HGSE this past summer, new college presidents worked together to prepare for their roles as leaders of higher education institutions; scores of academic librarians met to discuss the challenges facing their ever - changing field; and over 100 early career principals developed leadership skills to better support teacher development and student achievement.

As reported by ESR News in May 2010, the former student was indicted last year on 20 counts of larceny, identity fraud, falsifying an endorsement or approval, and pretending to hold a degree, and was «untruthful» in his applications for scholarships and in falsifying transcripts that detailed an impressive academic career at top educational institutions.