Sentences with phrase «finding nonacademic»

And their professors, having spent entire careers in academe, often lack the knowledge and experience needed to advise them on finding nonacademic jobs.

Ph.D. s hoping to find nonacademic careers — a group that, in the long run, comprises the overwhelming majority of doctorate recipients — must navigate the transition to industry or government, often with only minimal help from their professors and institutions.

This mentality (and, interestingly, the media) consistently reinforces the misguided belief that young, inner - city students of color should find nonacademic paths to success.

Not exact matches

With the exception of the program at New York Theological Seminary, all the organizations participating were founded and are directed by people involved in ministry outside the academy (and even NYTS requires its professors to engage in nonacademic ministry).

So, although speakers agreed that the need for new approaches to graduate education is pressing, effective reform to prepare students for existing nonacademic opportunities will take strong action by entities that are currently finding it hard to work together.

No gender differences could be found regarding research funding, finding a permanent nonacademic research position, or pursuing alternative careers.

I've also found additional information from Leeds University Careers Service for postdocs considering a change of career to the commerce and industry sectors and an index of articles published in the U.S. Chronicle of Higher Education on nonacademic careers for PhDs, which includes case studies and advice.

Computer science also seems healthy, with a relative few finding work in academia but a very good faculty - to - postdoc ratio, suggesting that Ph.D. computer science graduates have very strong nonacademic career prospects.

But, given the disappointingly uneven picture of available professional development resources that the report paints, scientists who want to emerge from their graduate school or postdoc years ready to find and take advantage of nonacademic career opportunities must adopt an entrepreneurial approach to their own professional development and take the fullest advantage of all the chances they get to learn about the world of off - campus work.

Rather, we should educate our young researchers on the broad range of nonacademic, professionally fulfilling job options that can be found out there.

Decreases in the attractiveness of faculty careers and concomitant increases in the attractiveness of nonacademic careers lead to even sharper shifts in the share of students finding a particular career most attractive compared to all other careers (the measure used in Figure 2).

Although some research finds that such benefits exist, the available data have not permitted researchers to confirm the causal effects of desegregation on nonacademic benefits for the same reasons that it is difficult to produce convincing findings on academic benefits: the nonrandom sorting of students among school environments and the real possibility that forced busing may produce effects very different from those of living in a racially or socioeconomically mixed community.

I like seeing how social science gets translated into information that nonacademics find interesting.

Balancing the needs of these children against the mandate to educate and now to meet academic standards set by state agencies is a formidable task, and schools are finding their curricula bulging with special units on what are sometimes seen as nonacademic and irrelevant frills — social skills training, anger management, conflict resolution, and safe sex, to name a few.