Sentences with phrase «fewer faculty jobs»

These days fewer faculty jobs are tenure - track, so job seekers in academic medical research need to look beyond the tenure - track label.

Not exact matches

Assadi - Porter's total dependence on soft money is one of the few aspects of her job that distinguishes her from faculty colleagues, she says.

Very few managed to get jobs at the Swarthmores, Amhersts, and Williamses of the world — top - tier PUIs, where faculty are expected to maintain serious research programs.

It's a unique field in that a large proportion of graduates end up in faculty posts — the jobs graduate school prepares them for — and yet its low postdoc numbers suggest that most graduates are placed in real jobs soon after receiving their Ph.D. s; few mathematicians, it seems, get stuck in the postdoctoral holding pattern.

Dulay points out the upsides of her job: She is part of a premier research team, has few funding worries because Zare's grant covers her salary, and gets to spend more time with her young daughter than she would as a faculty member.

Chances are, you will achieve your first job as an assistant professor (if that is your goal) with fewer years of research training than your «Ph.D. - only» compatriots, who typically do a couple of extended postdocs of three or more years before reaching the point where they can compete for a faculty appointment.

And, although he does not anticipate «a gush» of new positions, Goldin says academic job prospects for physicists are «looking better» than they have in recent lean years — not only because of faculty retirement but also because fewer physicists are choosing to remain in the ivory tower, meaning less competition for openings.

The most obvious explanation for the gap is that women faculty are over-represented in the lower paying, nontenure track jobs such as lecturer or assistant professor, and that relatively few women are tenured professors.

Laura Weingartner, a graduate researcher in evolutionary ecology at Indiana University, agreed: «Few universities (specifically the faculty advisors) know how to train students for anything other than academia, which leaves many students hopeless when, inevitably, there are no jobs in academia for them.»

Very few law schools have faculty expertise in this field, and there is both student interest and jobs in the field.»

One of my jobs at Osgoode Hall Law School over the past few years has been to mediate between the IT people and the faculty, and so I know a little about this vexed meeting of minds, but I'd imagined that somehow things would be better worked out in the professional context of practice than in the sometimes quirky academic world.