Sentences with phrase «many nonacademic»

Yet many nonacademic readers are indeed impressed by Dawkins» belligerent, scientistic blather.

A remarkable flourishing of spiritualities has combined thoughtfulness with passion, often by women who also write in other genres (academic and nonacademic), such as Loades, Soskice, Grey, Coakley, Hampson, Jantzen, Ursula King (a German teaching in Bristol), Sarah Maitland, Monica Furlong and Elizabeth Stuart.

There are some parallels with other nonacademic American poets — William Carlos Williams, for instance, who practiced medicine and delivered thousands of New Jersey babies while writing the American epic Paterson.

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).

It is all the more imperative, then, that ample provision also be made for studies that are not subordinate to nonacademic interests, in order that the prevailing conditions of culture and society may not remain without challenge or alternatives.

He felt that a nonacademic «empiricism» takes the psychological and moral implications of human egotism for granted in all forms of human relations.

He clearly adopted what Sloan and others call the «two spheres» idea — that faculty hiring should be blind to religion in order to hire the best - trained people, and that the religious character of the school would be developed in the private and nonacademic realms of chapel and personal piety.

At the same time, officials around the nation have been trying to figure out how to respond to the new Every Student Succeeds Act, which replaced No Child Left Behind in December 2015 and requires each state to come up with its own accountability system that must include at least one nonacademic measure.

Interscholastic Athletics: Board Policy 2436.10 (1984) outlines the requirements for participating in nonacademic activities in grades 7 - 12.

This may bring many students into the false sense that preparing for a nonacademic career is a one - size - fits - all proposition that can be accomplished in the few weeks before graduation.

Or to spend 2 years earning Professional Science Master's degrees and entrée to nonacademic science - based careers?

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.

As a Ph.D. atmospheric scientist (and an M.B.A.), «I've always had challenges being viewed as legitimate because I had a nonacademic plan,» she shares.

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.

These 2 - year PSM programs, as we have often reported, prepare students for nonacademic, science - related careers through graduate work in both science and such employment - relevant fields as business, economics, intellectual property, regulatory affairs, ethics, or law.

Thousands of Ph.D. holders unable to obtain faculty jobs search for other opportunities despite lack of training for nonacademic employment, while many faculty investigators struggle, often futilely, to win funding amid intense competition.

Linda Strausbaugh, director of strategic initiatives at the National Professional Science Master's Association, explained to the graduate school committee the skills nonacademic employers generally require that traditional graduate programs largely ignore — mainly in communication, teamwork, and project management.

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

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

Academia now serves as a «training ground» rather than a career destination for the great majority of scientists, with work in industry, government, or other nonacademic employers the «new norm.»

These new skills enable graduate students and postdocs to enter the next stage of their careers better informed and equipped to adapt to challenges the academic or nonacademic world sends their way.

Some years ago, a Ph.D. holder with a successful nonacademic career told me how her postdoc supervisor gave her permission to leave the lab.

In my opinion, Science's Next Wave is a good starting point for learning about nonacademic careers.

After doing a Ph.D. in social science at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, she took a short training course at the University of Melbourne in Australia learning to write for nonacademic audiences.

The National Academies seemed like a good place to begin my foray into the mysterious world of nonacademic 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.

Therefore, researchers in training need to consider and prepare for careers outside, as well as within, academia because «alternative» nonacademic careers actually represent the vast majority of career destinations for researchers nowadays.

Informational interviews are the ultimate information exchange and your best opportunity to learn about career tracks, employers, and the many differences between academic and nonacademic careers.

«There was definitely a bias... against people going into nonacademic careers, that they were somehow not using their full potential, that they were only doing it because they couldn't do anything else,» she says.

However, you should make an effort to join your laboratory colleagues in some of the nonacademic activities.

Remuneration in nonacademic careers will usually be higher, often representing a several hundredfold increase over your student stipend.

Though the course's focus stood squarely on the needs of the academic scientist, many of the skills taught, such as time management, project management, collaborations, and mentoring, carry over to nonacademic jobs as well.

Attention focused on funding, postdocs, staff scientists, and training for nonacademic careers.

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.

Although I enjoy my current research focus, I tend to exclude myself from many of the nonacademic lab activities.

In any case, eager to establish nonacademic credentials, many Ph.D. scientists are figuring things out on their own.

«The new journal aims to capture the contributions of nonacademics to scientific research.»

Sure, advisers may not be in the best position to mentor students on such a wide variety of paths, but universities still owe it to their students, and to society, to provide meaningful help in preparing their Ph.D. graduates for the nonacademic roles they're likely to hold.

They also worked on developing a plan for a proposed online hub or center that would collect and disseminate information and resources, including a speakers bureau of scientists in nonacademic careers, to help institutions provide better career development services.

Where nonacademic jobs once required skills that did not carry over to academia, that's not necessarily the case these days, says Gregory Kopf, who spent more than two decades at the University of Pennsylvania before moving to Wyeth Research.

The program works like this: Full - time faculty members with independent research programs (postdocs are not eligible) apply via the program's Web site; researchers holding equivalent positions in industry of nonacademic labs may also apply.

The COSEPUP report suggested that the postdoc population was stabilizing in response to «better information and opportunities in the nonacademic job market.»

Campbell notes that the «self - selecting» people who apply to BALSA have «an appetite for something» that graduate school and postdoc training is not providing, namely the relationships and experiences that prepare them to move into nonacademic opportunities.

This «misalignment between the narrow preparation PhD candidates receive and the broad array of careers they pursue» can seriously complicate their efforts to land a suitable and satisfying nonacademic job.

They've also developed online resources to address five categories of skills to succeed in academia or nonacademic organizations: personal motivation, creating opportunities, working with people, influencing change, and understanding commercial context.

For research scholars and nonacademic professionals, USEFI offers several programs related to science and technology:

Unlike LabMate, which focuses on obtaining paid short - term and permanent employment for individuals who have finished their Ph.D. s, BALSA concentrates on helping grad students and postdocs gain off - campus experience and polish their nonacademic skills.

Ex-postdocs who take nonacademic employment start out earning less than contemporaries who took jobs right after their Ph.D. s, and their incomes never catch up.

«About three fifths of White male STEM PhD holders were in nonacademic careers.»

However, a growing number of universities, professional societies, and governmental science offices have put together forums, workshops, and online resources for students and postdocs to make themselves more competitive for nonacademic jobs.