Sentences with phrase «faculty search»

As a faculty member who serves on faculty search committees and a frequent reader of job applications, I dread reading teaching statements.

The original information contained in the survey should be required reading for all postdocs and faculty search chairs.

Since 2006, I have applied for 35 tenure - track faculty positions, worked as a professor at two institutions — both primarily undergraduate institutions — and served on numerous faculty search committees.

As any experienced search committee member will tell you, faculty searches tend to favor fresh young candidates whose work makes new connections among existing disciplines.

By broadening the scope of faculty searches, academic science departments could, similarly, diversify their faculties without lowering standards.

Citing a recent Boston Globe article, Blaser said that while larger research institutions like Harvard University have put many faculty searches on hold, smaller neighboring universities like Tufts and colleges like Emerson, Holy Cross, and Amherst are looking to hire «top scientists discouraged by the stiff competition» at larger institutions.

She says that since arriving at Duke in 2007, she has pushed for equal representation of women on faculty search committees and has sent lists of faculty candidates back to departments because there were no women candidates on the list.

If it succeeds in restarting canceled tenure - track faculty searches or in starting new ones, this program will meet, in a small way, the Recovery Act's immediate goal of creating jobs right away.

(These rubrics that some university departments have used in faculty searches may be a useful starting point.)

Last year, just before a strict hiring freeze took effect, UC Irvine's new Environment Institute announced a series of eight faculty searches seeking scientists who could conduct interdisciplinary research and interact with multiple departments.

These grants will fund faculty start - up packages and, NIH hopes, persuade cash - strapped universities to restart canceled or postponed faculty searches.

Maintain statistical data; coordinate faculty searches; monitor faculty appointments sabbaticals promotions and retirements

Singer and Willett will share the position — traditionally held by one person — with responsibility for overseeing the academic life of the school, enhancing the professional development of faculty, advising on faculty searches, and ensuring that graduate students have sufficient financial and academic support.

«It should show what sets this individual apart from all others,» advises Professor Jeffrey Stansbury, chair of the faculty search committee at the Department of Craniofacial Biology of the University of Colorado School of Dentistry in Denver.

Deepto Chakrabarty, an associate professor of physics at MIT who headed a faculty search committee last year, reached a similar conclusion after he calculated the h - index for each of the short - list candidates.

The National Institutes of Health awarded 141 grants through its P30 program, a funding mechanism repurposed under ARRA to support hiring newly recruited faculty members in multidisciplinary areas, so at least 141 faculty searches were saved.

Increasingly, though, the route to independence leads not through a faculty search committee, but through your own institution's grants office.

So for every permanent - faculty search I'm involved in, I end up reading as many as several hundred insipid teaching statements.

In addition, she initiated a faculty search that will bring new interdisciplinary expertise to Gladstone in 2017.