Sentences with phrase «majority of his academic career»

I spent the majority of my academic career in the principal's office... that is, until I learned how to meditate.

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As graduate students and postdocs, you likely know that the majority of Ph.D. scientists enter rewarding careers outside the traditional academic track.

Academic careers pose tripartite demands of research, teaching, and service; at many institutions — perhaps the majority — professors find that campus time is taken up mostly by the latter two, leaving research and writing for evenings and weekends — time that women need to keep up their homes and raise their families.

A majority of respondents with a long - term academic career were confident: 62 % expected to succeed.

We found that, while most students were intent on an academic career when they entered graduate school, most were also aware that the majority of graduates pursued other opportunities.

We found that, while most students were intent on an academic career when they entered graduate school, most were also aware that the majority of the graduates pursued other opportunities.

«The majority of trainees will eventually choose to pursue those careers, but only after having made irreversible investments in what is often more than a decade in training for academic jobs that do not exist,» the presidents and chancellors wrote.

For the majority of scientists who won't get tenure - track positions — and may not want them — Research Universities states that the great need is to «better position new PhDs for the careers they will have by providing more information about career options and by providing opportunities to acquire, in addition to the knowledge of one's field, skills that are useful for academic positions (teaching, grant writing, publishing, presentations) and positions in government, business and non-profits (oral and written communication, project management, regulatory compliance, business ethics and innovation.)»

One measure of program success for the foundation will be seeing the majority of the awardees pursuing academic careers.

«The vast majority of research, policy, and practice pertaining to student aspirations has focused on understanding and supporting the educational and career aspirations of students in the last three years of secondary school... and yet we found that the aspirations of younger students were similar in many respects to those of older students,» the academics write.

In a troubling picture of performance, the vast majority of Illinois students failed to reach the high academic bar on the new state PARCC exams, meaning they weren't on track academically for the next grade level, let alone for college or careers.

As concerns grew in the 1980s and 1990s in New York state that the average academic ability of teachers was in decline — a nationwide phenomenon that policy experts attributed in part to expanding career opportunities for women, who make up the vast majority of the teaching profession — the state set about finding ways to reverse this trend.109

Or at least see any for the majority of us at non-Harvard, Yale, Columbia, etc. schools that have no hope of a legal - academic career.