The National Assembly is expected to pass a bill this session that would prohibit universities from filling more than half of
new faculty openings with their own alumni.
Today's funding system, adopted by the federal government in the wake of World War II, initially focused both on educating scientists to meet the nation's needs in an era
when faculty openings were plentiful, and on encouraging faculty members to perform fundamental research.
Here's another factor, which the authors did not consider but which also seems likely to increase the prominence of stars and their collaboration networks: the extremely tight job market caused by a large surplus of aspirants for relatively
few faculty openings.
This is the largest annual number of
faculty openings in the 15 years that AIP has collected data on hiring trends.
Likewise, the results of my search line up (within an order of magnitude, anyway) with what you'd expect to see if the
average faculty opening gets at least 10 times more qualified applicants than can be invited for campus visits, and if, on average, four applicants visit for every position — it's not at all surprising that it took 11 campus interviews to get three offers.
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In his third postdoc year, facing a dearth
of faculty openings, he received an invitation to present the results of the work he'd been doing creating magnetometers at a conference at Brown University.
Whenever
a faculty opening occurs, Belvin and three teachers form a search committee that reviews applications and selects three candidates to interview on site.
A CV is more used for positions in academia, fellowships,
faculty openings, assistantships, internships postdoctoral positions, teaching / research positions and when applying for grants or scholarship.