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.
Not exact matches
«I don't think we should be asking students and
junior faculty to
do that.
It was probably a very dangerous thing to
do if you were a
junior faculty who might be looking for tenure, let's say.
«Some institutions [in the United States] are no longer recruiting
junior - level
faculty who don't have their own grant support,» says Michael Lehman, chair of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the University of Western Ontario and president - elect of the Association for Neuroscience Departments and Programs (ANDP).
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?
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.»
I work as a scientific editor in a large university medical center, where I also teach scientific writing to postdocs,
junior faculty, and medical residents who are
doing biomedical research.
The most common management error Johnson cites among
junior faculty has little to
do with lab personnel.
«I recommend to [
junior faculty] to be visible in some way, in seminars,
faculty functions, interdisciplinary functions within [the university], and don't be afraid to contact or approach other people.»
Proctor adds that the administration clearly has much work to
do in clarifying issues for
junior faculty members.
Occasionally a new
junior hire may be coming from a
faculty position elsewhere, but that doesn't happen very often.
Salaries vary widely, but don't undervalue yourself — postdocs in industry earn far more than their academic counterparts, and staff scientist salaries are typically higher than those of
junior academic
faculty.
Between teaching, research, grant writing, and other departmental service commitments, I don't see how
junior faculty balance family and career.
For the predoctoral and
junior faculty members, of whom 10 from each group are accepted each year, they are given the opportunity to
do a rotation at a local industry laboratory to see what the intramural scientists are
doing, how deals are negotiated, and what sort of applied skills are needed to work with industry.
As a
junior faculty member, he says, he published little and didn't worry about advancing his career.
«This has been a gnawing problem for too long, and something should be
done,» particularly about the stagnant numbers of
junior women
faculty members.
Female academics face several challenges that their male colleagues don't, says lead author Joyce Benenson, a psychologist at Emmanuel College in Boston (who co-authored the paper with Richard Wrangham, a full professor at Harvard University where Berenson worked previously as
junior faculty).
The consortium will provide
junior faculty and fellows the opportunity to write, conduct, and complete trials, which would not normally be
done at a single institution or on a nat ional level for young investigators.
Unlike many
junior faculty, he and his wife own a home in Cambridge, but Enos
does not plan to buy a larger house suitable for a family any time soon.
«Navigating the pathway to tenure has always been vexing for
junior faculty, and we don't expect that problem will ever go away entirely, but it is troublesome that gender differences in perceptions of clarity still exist,» Trower said.
Although not an academic per se, (a) When
doing my PhD in early 1970s, I was an instructor (i.e.,
junior faculty member),
did curriculum development, grant work, and wrote software that got used at ~ 300 colleges, not so easy pre-Internet.