Sentences with phrase «new faculty hires»

Overall, the gender breakdowns of computer science Ph.D. recipients and new faculty hires «are very close,» Clauset says, which «suggests there isn't much slack in the system for intervention at the faculty hiring stage.
For example, during the 1980s, only 16 % of the new faculty hires were physicists who had earned their Ph.D. s abroad.
By contrast, only 35 % of the new faculty hired by Ph.D. - granting departments in 1999 were young scientists from the United States.

Not exact matches

When Zeliff hires in new faculty, he asks them to first spend time as a teaching assistant to judge the fit between them and the school.
The state funding will also be used to hire new faculty and purchase cutting - edge equipment, including electro - mechanical and mechatronic simulator training for the program's students.
«The CUNY Board of Trustees has approved an operating budget request for FY2017 - 18 that seeks increased state and city investment in faculty hiring, new research, expanding college access and other initiatives necessary to provide our students with an affordable, high - quality education,» Arena said in an emailed statement.
A woman applying for a tenure - track faculty position in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) at a U.S. university is twice as likely to be hired as an equally qualified man, if both candidates are highly qualified, according to a new study.
«Cerebellar interactions with the frontal cortex in cognitive processes has never been shown before in animal models,» says Parker, UI assistant professor of psychiatry and the first faculty hire of the new Iowa Neuroscience Institute.
We are projected to hire almost 7000 new faculty members over the next decade.
The University of California, Santa Cruz, which is the smallest of the nine main campuses except for Merced, which doesn't yet have students, will be hiring close to 600 faculty members over the next decade, about 350 for new positions and the rest from expected retirements.
A new study reports that, when faculty members rated hypothetical candidates for a tenure - track faculty position, a highly qualified woman is twice as likely to be hired as an equally qualified man.
These days, budget - conscious universities often hire nontrack employees rather than tenure - track faculty to fill openings, making VanderPlas's hoped - for new tenure lines unlikely to appear any time soon.
The department chair meets with each new hire and has monthly luncheons with new faculty members to discuss issues confidentially.
Last year, just before a strict hiring freeze took effect, UC Irvine's new Environment Institute announced a series of eight faculty searches seeking scientists who could conduct interdisciplinary research and interact with multiple departments.
The key to all this is universities» desperate desire to hire faculty members who can quickly begin landing the grants that justify the university's large investment — in facilities and in new hires» start - up packages.
We have not hired very many new faculty in the last five years that didn't have an R01 or some sort of major grant,» says Pollock.
You finally landed that junior faculty job, hired a technician and a postdoc, and signed up a couple of graduate students to help take you and your lab boldly into the new millennium.
And stimulus money not aimed specifically at the sciences has nonetheless softened the impact of reduced state funding at many public universities, allowing some to borrow against future retirements to hire new faculty members now.
For example, new faculty members who joined departments that participated in WISELI's workshop on recruiting diverse candidates report greater satisfaction with the hiring process than those in departments that did not take the workshop, Sheridan says.
Weibl said that university hiring freezes and the reduced retirement rate affects young scientists looking for jobs as well as universities looking to bring in faculty that may represent new research directions for their department.
In the 4 years preceding this ban, the percentage of new women faculty hired by the University of California (UC) averaged 35.3 %, whereas in the 4 years that followed it averaged only 26 %.
HMC's new women — indeed, all of HMC's new tenure - track hires — have an advantage over new faculty at other colleges and universities, particularly at some elite universities where junior faculty have very little chance of achieving tenure.
Four of the eight new hires will fill lines vacated by retiring faculty.
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.
According to Holdway, who is on the faculty hiring committee, they hope to obtain approval to hire at least one new faculty member in each of their 6 research areas, and some technical personnel.
«Québec universities plan to hire a significant number of professors in the next 3 to 5 years,» says Francesco Arena of the Québec Ministère de l'Éducation, «but I do not have sufficient information to tell you how many new faculty will take advantage of the new tax exemption measure.»
Occasionally a new junior hire may be coming from a faculty position elsewhere, but that doesn't happen very often.
If the additional 2 years on the tenure cycle are eventually approved, the new tenure - review policy would not only apply to new hires but would also be available as an option to current tenure - track faculty members.
Much of the decline, the researchers point out, could be traced to an increase in faculty retirements and a dearth of new hires.
A new faculty member at Carnegie - Mellon responded: «I am sure it would help to have a grant in hand, but I didn't and neither did the other fellow who was hired at the same time.
The profile of new faculty members hired by physics departments at primarily undergraduate institutions is very different than at research university departments.
My inspiration to pursue graduate school in chemistry came from a new faculty member who was hired during the fourth year of my B.Sc.
20 years ago, colleges and universities were hiring an unprecedented number of new faculty to accommodate the baby - boomer generation, so the better jobs were more plentiful.
The gift will allow the Carney Institute to accelerate hiring of leading faculty and postdoctoral scholars in fields related to brain science, supply seed funding for high - impact new research, and also fund essential new equipment and infrastructure in technology - intensive areas of exploration.
In the coming years, the Metabolism Theme at Morgridge plans to hire ~ 5 new investigators who will be housed within the institute and will hold joint faculty appointments at UW - Madison.
Enabled by generous donations from the Simons Foundation and other sources, the SCQB is currently undergoing a major expansion, with several new hires of faculty and staff.
The medical school announces plans to hire more than 60 new faculty members in five research areas and strengthen its support of other research efforts as part of $ 67 million initiative.
One of the members of the U.S. Education Department's task force on undergraduate education warned recently that colleges and universities must take a long - range view of faculty development because they will have to hire as many as 500,000 new faculty members in the next 25 years.
Character education is embedded in the district's stated goals and criteria for hiring new faculty.
Q: With this gift, you'll be able to hire new early childhood members to the faculty.
The budget also made attempts to address the growing teacher shortage by implementing a new Local Alternative Teacher Preparation Program, and by granting districts the ability to hire adjunct Career and Technical Education faculty.
As a new hire (I've only been on the dream job since January 6), it is crucial that I demonstrate to the administrators, faculty and staff that I am able to deliver what I say I can; whether it's lesson plans, literacy strategies or differentiated texts, I better know what in the heck I'm talking about.
New staff and faculty have been hired and assigned classes.
If you are so inclined, you may also want to read the recent Washington Post (10.24.16) article, entitled «The big problem with the Obama administration's new teacher - education regulations», in which the chair of Connecticut College's Education Department co-wrote that the «academy provisions» which were incorporated into ESSA (after initially being developed by the two charter lobbyist organizations New Schools Venture Fund and Relay Graduate School of Education) would exempt «entrepreneurial «start - up programs» (i.e. teacher preparation «academies»)... from many of the requirements that states will enforce for other programs — such as hiring faculty who hold advanced degrees or conduct research, holding students to certain credit hours or course sequences, or securing accreditation from the field's accrediting bodies.&raqnew teacher - education regulations», in which the chair of Connecticut College's Education Department co-wrote that the «academy provisions» which were incorporated into ESSA (after initially being developed by the two charter lobbyist organizations New Schools Venture Fund and Relay Graduate School of Education) would exempt «entrepreneurial «start - up programs» (i.e. teacher preparation «academies»)... from many of the requirements that states will enforce for other programs — such as hiring faculty who hold advanced degrees or conduct research, holding students to certain credit hours or course sequences, or securing accreditation from the field's accrediting bodies.&raqNew Schools Venture Fund and Relay Graduate School of Education) would exempt «entrepreneurial «start - up programs» (i.e. teacher preparation «academies»)... from many of the requirements that states will enforce for other programs — such as hiring faculty who hold advanced degrees or conduct research, holding students to certain credit hours or course sequences, or securing accreditation from the field's accrediting bodies.»
§ Be hired for full - time faculty employment on or after July 1, 2010 at a school of nursing in the State of New Jersey.
Less tuition revenue means less money to hire and pay faculty, to acquire library holdings, to maintain and build new facilities, etc..
(ii) some law schools have failed to provide their students with the skills needed to actually practice law (as described in the ABA's 1992 MacCrate Report — http://www.abanet.org/legaled/publications/onlinepubs/maccrate.html); this is reflected in many law schools preference for hiring new faculty that have not spent much time practicing law.
Funding will help these pilot law schools hire adjunct faculty to teach the new Cyber Clinic on assurances that the course will be continued if successful.
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