Proctor tells Next Wave Canada that she hears many complaints
from junior faculty members about the heavy teaching load (the university requires assistant professors to teach 5 courses per academic year), large class sizes, and extensive administrative duties early in their careers.
In addition to bringing together established leaders in the field, the network will make a special effort to include innovative new perspectives
from junior faculty members and underrepresented groups.
To help you get started you might want to get a copy of a lab set - up list
from another junior faculty member in your area of research who has recently set up his or her own lab.
Not exact matches
They would also like to see a form of joint supervision (e.g., a professor and a more
junior faculty member working together), moving away
from the traditional model of one supervisor.
Right now, the institute is looking to hire five new tenure - track
faculty members from junior to established researchers with expertise
from bioinformatics and systems modeling to genomics and lipomics.
The length of the probation period isn't the only concern of
junior faculty members; many have made it clear to UTFA that they aren't satisfied with the level of support they currently receive
from the administration.
Moreover,
junior faculty members at U of T receive little formal
faculty mentoring or career development support
from the administration or their tenured colleagues.
For the predoctoral and
junior faculty members, of whom 10
from each group are accepted each year, they are given the opportunity to do a rotation at a local industry laboratory to see what the intramural scientists are doing, how deals are negotiated, and what sort of applied skills are needed to work with industry.
«Teaching a module now as a doctoral student has allowed me to get feedback on my teaching
from colleagues and professors in order to develop my practice further in a way that might not be quite as available to me as a full - time
junior faculty member,» she says.
Scavenger hunts about the
faculty or a Web page of pictures of staff
members from their
junior high days can bring people together as a team.
The
Junior Scholars Colloquium provides approximately eight junior faculty members (as defined in the submission criteria below) with the opportunity to present competitively selected, unpublished papers and receive comments from more senior faculty members to help improve their schola
Junior Scholars Colloquium provides approximately eight
junior faculty members (as defined in the submission criteria below) with the opportunity to present competitively selected, unpublished papers and receive comments from more senior faculty members to help improve their schola
junior faculty members (as defined in the submission criteria below) with the opportunity to present competitively selected, unpublished papers and receive comments
from more senior
faculty members to help improve their scholarship.