Sentences with phrase «of academe»

I'd already been told that I'd never make it, going from the world of academe into sales.

And thus as research funding and careers become ever more precarious, the groves of academe now reverberate to the sound of bandwagons carrying hordes of physicists on what they hope will be a voyage of discovery — but which could take them round and round in circles.

In the same way IP and litigation lawyers are well trained starting from early on in law school, e-discovery and other technology - based areas of practice need to get their due in the hallowed halls of academe.

You simply can't move from the world of academe into real estate, I heard repeatedly.

The Groves of Academe turns a satirical eye on academic politics in the age of the Red Scare.

I do not therefore expect any grand restructuring of academe in the near future, and I would myself shrink back from participating in such a venture.

To focus on the pastoral opportunity before us in campus ministry, I turn not to Clark Kerr or David Riesman for clues to the spiritual condition of academe, but rather to two of the most popular bards of this generation, Jackson Browne and James Taylor.

Though the tradition of solid scholarship and painstaking research still persists in some parts of academe, many of the theologians who gain national press and prestige today do so either as clever faddists or as facile exegetes of what had seemed profundities.

In his conclusion he advocates two strategies of modest opposition to the dominant orientation of academe.

They are, in my opinion, one of the great couples of academe.

Ph.D. s seeking careers outside of academe constantly hear about how important it is to let potential employers know about skills honed on campus that can translate to a new work environment.

Further progress will involve changes in how universities function and in how the culture of academe is perceived in China.

Another scheme is bringing industrial «moles» into the heart of academe through Industrial Impact Fellowships.

You might call these individuals crazy, but most in the world of academe call them postdocs.

To encourage innovation, Regeneron labs operate like a hybrid of academe and business, Grossman explains.

The low representation of women in physics may not be benign (my personal opinion), but it is explainable at the higher levels of academe.

The transition can prove difficult because of the different mindsets of academe and industry.

Lab chiefs who have never worked outside of academe generally lack the information, contacts, and inclination to help their postdocs enter the many fields that, unlike university research, offer good opportunities.

Four years doesn't always allow candidates sufficient time to establish promising research programs or to produce enough of the currency of academe — publications.

In the meantime, the study by Mr. Chronister and Mr. Baldwin provides the clearest indication that the practice of hiring full - time faculty members off the tenure track is a permanent fixture of academe.

It has been argued here before that the amazing thing about Lew is not simply the low quality of his work, but the failure of academe to act as a check on it.

The old - school delivery of this critique of U.S. education can be found wittily expressed in the late Richard Mitchell's The Graves of Academe and his Underground Grammarian newsletter.

Just remember, however, that people of the academe usually have very high standards when it comes to recruiting applicants.

University students taking up their undergraduate or postgraduate courses would find the higher rungs of the academe rife with competition and demanding assignments.

Other lifestyle considerations figure attractively: Personality-wise, those with a hard - driving, entrepreneurial streak might find the fast - moving atmosphere of a start - up a better fit than the halls of academe.

Federal grants to faculty members finance a «robust market for postdocs internal to universities» but unconnected to the glutted faculty job market or career opportunities outside of academe, he said.

In The Groves of Academe, McCarthy says of one character: «Her forte was not original thought but the ability to return someone else's suggestion fully made up and labeled, like a pharmacist's compound.»

«Part of becoming a member of academe is getting feedback from an entire community,» Garson says of the reason she and McGowan require their students to participate in the SRC.

More than once I was told: you can not go from the world of academe into sales; you just can't.

And that it isn't likely to be a success moving from the world of academe into the world of sales (from a manager who had been a school teacher).

In other words, the positive image is to show that, even though one is not literally within the groves of Academe, his robe and his pen are still as dominant in his vocational self - image as if he were a professor.