In effect, tenure and seniority work together to give employers the flexibility to lay people off when economic circumstances require it, but in a way that protects teachers from being arbitrarily targeted, or targeted because they were paid more than
more junior faculty.
A sponsor, according to the task force, is a person in a leadership position who actively supports the career advancement of
a more junior faculty member or trainee in whom they see career and leadership potential.
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.
Universities across the United States and Europe are increasingly reshaping recruitment policies in order to attract and retain
more junior faculty.
Not exact matches
A recent posting for a tenure - track
junior faculty position in my department attracted
more than 200 applications, a frightening number in and of itself.
Provide an appropriate
faculty member or
more senior graduate student as a mentor to create a sense of belonging, and give the student a chance to be a mentor to a
more junior graduate student.
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.
«There are certain phases when you need
more mentoring, such as when you're an undergraduate or graduate student or when you're a
junior faculty member,» she says.
As Peterson puts it, «As a
junior faculty, if you're lucky to get on a study section, it can take you to another level in your career and help you be
more successful in your own grant writing.
A decision to work with a
more established investigator avoids some potential problems that can arise with
junior faculty members but can raise others.
Salaries vary widely, but don't undervalue yourself — postdocs in industry earn far
more than their academic counterparts, and staff scientist salaries are typically higher than those of
junior academic
faculty.
Brossard, a professor in the Department of Life Sciences Communication, said she is beginning to see some
junior faculty include outreach activities in their tenure packages, and while the response to these efforts can vary depending on factors including discipline, the makeup of the committee, and the institution, «it's regarded in a
more positive light than it was a number of years ago.
New funding will attract
junior faculty — who frequently find it
more challenging to secure research funding — and provide initial start - up funds as they launch their research careers and clinical practices.
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.