Sentences with phrase «for faculty hired»

Fortunately most science isn't as politically charged as climate science, otherwise the starting point for many of Dr. Curry's ideas to succeed would first require the step of establishing diversity through political affirmative action for faculty hires, not feasible within a reasonable timeframe, if at all.

Not exact matches

You equate a criteria call for student admission and faculty hire with religious or gender orientation discrimination?

But for institutions to hire only faculty who subscribe to those beliefs is contrary to the principles of academic inquiry.

To be sure, they argue their views in the Hope way, which is to say in a middle way: they want neither a statement of faith for all faculty to sign (like Wheaton) nor a Protestants - only hiring policy (like Calvin).

In spite of financial difficulties, the faculty expanded with an additional class teacher each year, specialty teachers for French and German and a full - time Eurythmist who was hired in 1993.

«It is appalling that the faculty union and for - hire political advocacy groups are knowingly misleading their members and the public to score cheap political points.»

The state funding will also be used to hire new faculty and purchase cutting - edge equipment, including electro - mechanical and mechatronic simulator training for the program's students.

He added that state authorization for CUNY to raise tuition $ 300 a year has led to the hiring of more faculty while the state has boosted funding to cover the extra fringe benefits.

Yassky — who makes $ 10,000 a month as a consultant and Albany lobbyist for the Lyft ride - hailing system — also made enemies at Pace by slashing faculty pay by 10 percent and cutting positions shortly after his February 2014 hiring.

«The CUNY Board of Trustees has approved an operating budget request for FY2017 - 18 that seeks increased state and city investment in faculty hiring, new research, expanding college access and other initiatives necessary to provide our students with an affordable, high - quality education,» Arena said in an emailed statement.

Yes, professors need to know how to write too, but unlike faculty, hiring decisions for nonfaculty academic posts are driven by the candidates» business and technical abilities.

A woman applying for a tenure - track faculty position in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) at a U.S. university is twice as likely to be hired as an equally qualified man, if both candidates are highly qualified, according to a new study.

The strategy included unconscious bias training for the hiring committee, a guide for recruiting diverse candidates, and connecting candidates with a faculty member outside of the search committee to answer their questions about the university's work - life balance.

One $ 262 million program has been tweaked to let universities — who receive block grants based on an assessment of faculty productivity — provide infrastructure for established as well as newly hired professors.

The goal is to give universities an added incentive to recruit young investigators and provide newly hired faculty members with some breathing room before applying for their first major grant, says Story Landis, director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke in Bethesda, Maryland.

«The university must retain the flexibility to hire faculty in the areas where they are most needed, particularly where there is increasing enrolment, rather than on a one - for - one basis», says Stacey Lewis, spokesperson for the university.

The University of California, Santa Cruz, which is the smallest of the nine main campuses except for Merced, which doesn't yet have students, will be hiring close to 600 faculty members over the next decade, about 350 for new positions and the rest from expected retirements.

By most accounts, the limited funds for the hiring of postdocs and junior faculty make such positions competitive, and this holds true for the neurosciences.

A new study reports that, when faculty members rated hypothetical candidates for a tenure - track faculty position, a highly qualified woman is twice as likely to be hired as an equally qualified man.

These days, budget - conscious universities often hire nontrack employees rather than tenure - track faculty to fill openings, making VanderPlas's hoped - for new tenure lines unlikely to appear any time soon.

I asked many professors for advice, read Science and Nature career advice columns, attended sessions at conferences aimed at helping to prepare application packages, and asked recently hired women faculty for advice.

As defined by Brown University in its copyright policy, however, «[c] opyrightable works of scholarly research, course materials or artistic works made by faculty members would not be considered Works Made for Hire and are the property of the author or authors.»

The college has also tried to provide more role models and mentoring for female students by using more women as teaching assistants, hiring more female faculty members, and promoting them into leadership positions.

For decades, the conventional wisdom was that increasing the number of minority scientists requires addressing every aspect of the pipeline — from elementary school through hiring and promoting faculty members.

Princeton, for example, plans to hire only about one - third as many faculty members this year as it has in past years, university spokesperson Emily Aronson says.

For example, new faculty members who joined departments that participated in WISELI's workshop on recruiting diverse candidates report greater satisfaction with the hiring process than those in departments that did not take the workshop, Sheridan says.

Coming from a human resources perspective (I previously worked for 3 years in the university's employment office), it seemed natural to me to develop an administrative model for the office that was similar to the staff hiring model: First, develop a detailed database to track postdocs; second, establish a postdoctoral appointment process; and third, develop resources for postdocs, faculty, and staff (including establishing minimal goals for programming and developing a Web site).

Weibl said that university hiring freezes and the reduced retirement rate affects young scientists looking for jobs as well as universities looking to bring in faculty that may represent new research directions for their department.

One common strategy for increasing women faculty in STEM departments is to hire from other universities.

Institutions would voluntarily collect data, set goals and develop action plans for improving their recruitment, hiring and retention of diverse STEM faculty and their recruitment and success rates among diverse graduate and undergraduate STEM students.

For example, during the 1980s, only 16 % of the new faculty hires were physicists who had earned their Ph.D. s abroad.

Gender bias in hiring is not blatant, the authors found, but gender - associated differences in productivity, postdoctoral experience, and institutional prestige of degree - granting institutions — which are likely due to bias against women during the training process — largely account for the observed gender imbalance in computer science faculty hiring networks.

Second, an institution may develop either a formal or ad - hoc policy to hire the partner for a part - time, adjunct, or non-tenure-track faculty position.

Their policies make explicit the necessity of reviewing the experiences and backgrounds of all potential hires, including those introduced through a dual - career policy, and having the faculty and administrators involved vote on whether the candidate meets the criteria necessary for the position.

Overall, the gender breakdowns of computer science Ph.D. recipients and new faculty hires «are very close,» Clauset says, which «suggests there isn't much slack in the system for intervention at the faculty hiring stage.

To address this question, the authors used a hand - curated dataset of 2659 tenure - track computer science faculty members at 205 Ph.D. - granting departments across North America, which they had previously developed for a 2015 study of faculty hiring networks.

Still, problems, or at least the potential for problems, exist in five areas: fairness, legality, faculty quality, tension between departmental needs and partner hires, and faculty autonomy in the hiring process.

The gift will allow the Carney Institute to accelerate hiring of leading faculty and postdoctoral scholars in fields related to brain science, supply seed funding for high - impact new research, and also fund essential new equipment and infrastructure in technology - intensive areas of exploration.

Character education is embedded in the district's stated goals and criteria for hiring new faculty.

Serious start - up schools need ready physical facilities, adequate R&D funds for the initial planning, and at least half of the faculty hired and involved in planning and training for at least nine months before the school opens.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion HGSE is committed to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion across our curriculum, in our classrooms, in our hiring for faculty and staff, and in our campus culture.

I think this commitment is represented well by HGSE faculty members, including some hired during my deanship, for example: Nancy Hill with her work on parenting and family socialization practices across ethnic, socio - economic, and neighborhood contexts; Meira Levinson with her work on civic and multicultural education; Natasha Warikoo with her work on race, immigration, inequality, and culture as they relate to education; and Hiro Yoshikawa with his work on the development of young children in immigrant families.

«Many factors contributed to these schools» success — careful hiring, frequent feedback on instruction, strong norms for both students and faculty, student supports, and skilled management — but it was teams that knit these components together for the good of students.»

Building a climbing wall, lazy river, or laser - tag area for students to enjoy in their downtime, for example, probably has a different impact than spending the same amount to hire more tenure - track faculty.

Junior faculty, for whom a given policy was «very» or «somewhat» important, rated the following policies as least effective on their campuses: childcare, financial assistance with housing, spousal / partner hiring programs, professional assistance in obtaining outside funding, and formal mentoring.

Recognizing this informed a deeper commitment to advancing diversity and inclusion across our curriculum, in our classrooms, in our hiring for faculty and staff, and in our campus culture.

The findings add to an already well - supported argument that college success for often first - in - their - family college students of color can be dramatically improved merely by hiring more faculty that look like those students.

Talk about expectations for tenure as early as at the interview stage, and hire faculty with the explicit belief that they will succeed.

Harvard U. Achieves Gender Parity in Junior Faculty Hires Inside Higher Ed, 4/10/15» «Over the past several years, Harvard, like many institutions, has worked diligently to diversify its faculty at all levels,» Judith D. Singer, Harvard's senior vice provost for faculty development and diversity and James Bryant Conant Professor of Education, said via email.

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