Between teaching, research, grant writing, and other departmental service commitments, I don't see
how junior faculty balance family and career.
Not exact matches
The single least expected and most significant finding of our study of
junior faculty was that their success — defined as tenure or extension of contract — is a function not of
how well they perform but of decisions the institution makes before they arrive.
She recently completed a national survey of doctoral candidates and
junior faculty that examines
how they make choices about working within or outside of the academy and what factors they use when deciding among more than one academic offer.
Ask
junior faculty members
how soon they will be up for tenure and whether they think they will get it.
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.
Junior faculty express the most satisfaction with teaching (mean = 4.02), followed by
how they spend their time (3.77); the support services and research composite scores are 3.52 and 3.5 respectively.
An administrator at Westover Park
Junior High School describes
how his rural middle school put in place a program of Positive Behavior Support, largely in response to a school survey that revealed both
faculty and staff considered the school's climate «toxic and clinical.»