Sentences with phrase «of faculty hired»

Serious start - up schools need ready physical facilities, adequate R&D funds for the initial planning, and at least half of the faculty hired and involved in planning and training for at least nine months before the school opens.

Indeed, this year's class is larger than the first group of faculty hired in 1957, shortly after the college's founding.

The first seven faculty members who started at Harvey Mudd College in 1957 have long since retired, and most of the faculty hired in the 1960s to meet the infant college's expanding needs have also moved on.

(Benne offers a typology of faculty hiring policies ranging from «orthodox,» to «critical mass,» to «intentionally pluralistic,» to «accidentally pluralistic.»)

«This relatively small increase may have been the result of an increase in the percentage of faculty hires that involve underrepresented minority faculty and efforts to increase the pipeline of medical school faculty.»

The fundamentals of faculty hiring also haven't changed, or not much.

To address this question, the authors used a hand - curated dataset of 2659 tenure - track computer science faculty members at 205 Ph.D. - granting departments across North America, which they had previously developed for a 2015 study of faculty hiring networks.

Not exact matches

If we believe Notre Dame can not become a great Christian university without inviting hundreds of non-Christians to join its faculty, we have an obligation to tell prospective students that many of their professors will be non-Christians who were hired in order to give Christians an opportunity to debate positions opposed to Christianity.

Sarah Coakley came to Harvard in 1993, hired as part of then - dean Ronald Thiemann's plan to bring more religiously committed faculty to liar - yard Divinity School.

But for institutions to hire only faculty who subscribe to those beliefs is contrary to the principles of academic inquiry.

To be sure, they argue their views in the Hope way, which is to say in a middle way: they want neither a statement of faith for all faculty to sign (like Wheaton) nor a Protestants - only hiring policy (like Calvin).

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.

In spite of financial difficulties, the faculty expanded with an additional class teacher each year, specialty teachers for French and German and a full - time Eurythmist who was hired in 1993.

He added that state authorization for CUNY to raise tuition $ 300 a year has led to the hiring of more faculty while the state has boosted funding to cover the extra fringe benefits.

«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.

«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.

And although they did not investigate the potential causes of the outcome, they suspect it may be due to some combination of successful training programs about gender and hiring, a growing belief that gender balance among STEM faculty is important, and the retirement of older faculty.

The strategy included unconscious bias training for the hiring committee, a guide for recruiting diverse candidates, and connecting candidates with a faculty member outside of the search committee to answer their questions about the university's work - life balance.

One $ 262 million program has been tweaked to let universities — who receive block grants based on an assessment of faculty productivity — provide infrastructure for established as well as newly hired professors.

The goal is to give universities an added incentive to recruit young investigators and provide newly hired faculty members with some breathing room before applying for their first major grant, says Story Landis, director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke in Bethesda, Maryland.

So, although some responsibility lies with trainees to take charge of their careers and be realistic about the faculty job market, the authors of the study also offer some recommendations about how some of the problems with the current hiring system could be addressed.

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.

By most accounts, the limited funds for the hiring of postdocs and junior faculty make such positions competitive, and this holds true for the neurosciences.

The ostensible goal of that arduous and anxiety - fraught procedure — and of the even more involved process of hiring and promoting faculty members at research universities — is to identify the next generation of productive scientists.

George Mason University has hired lots of full - time, non-tenured instructors lately — 230 of its 749 full - time faculty members are on fixed contracts.

Ranking schools based on their position within this faculty hiring network may be a more accurate predictor of a Ph.D. graduate's eventual academic placement than authoritative rankings by the U.S. News & World Report and the National Research Council, the authors say.

The choices of hiring committees and self - selection by faculty candidates perpetuate faculty culture and traditions.

«These people come cheaper than a tenure - track hire,» acknowledges David L. Potter, provost at George Mason University, where 30 per cent of full - time faculty members are off the tenure track.

Despite differing drastically in the topics they study, the research methods they use, the sources of their funding, and many other respects, these disciplines differ hardly at all in «the enormous role of institutional prestige in shaping faculty hiring across academe,» the authors found.

With 40 years on faculties and multiple decades on hiring and promotion committees, Krieger has a keen sense of what works and what doesn't.

Almost a decade, ago, we reported on the dynamics of the star system as it operates in the hiring of young faculty members at research institutions.

During his tenure as chair of the immunology department, he proffered the same advice to the department's young faculty hires.

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.

After all, they were supposedly unable to «find anyone» to hire into these positions and were «desperate» to hire women and faculty of color.

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.

«We have leverage through specific programs designed to foster development of faculty who are hired.

As defined by Brown University in its copyright policy, however, «[c] opyrightable works of scholarly research, course materials or artistic works made by faculty members would not be considered Works Made for Hire and are the property of the author or authors.»

The next year he was hired as a founding faculty member at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), a graduate research university outside Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, that opened in 2009.

For decades, the conventional wisdom was that increasing the number of minority scientists requires addressing every aspect of the pipeline — from elementary school through hiring and promoting faculty members.

Many U.S. universities have no women at all among their physics faculty, and when people talk about gender equity in physics, this fact is often cited as evidence of a hiring bias.

At one prestigious university they studied, the «math department hired local junior college faculty to offer a number of courses as overloads.

In April 1997, I was hired by the director of faculty affairs, Victoria Mulhern, to create what would become the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Office of Postdoctoral Programs.

One thing that won't get you hired is sending a massive e-mail to every faculty member in that department, says Michael Doyle, former president of the Council on Undergraduate Research and chemistry professor at the University of Maryland.

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.

Gaining the support of the central School of Medicine administration, developing automated monthly reports, meeting with all newly hired business administrators, and constantly reminding faculty and staff members all contributed to our success.

The National Institutes of Health awarded 141 grants through its P30 program, a funding mechanism repurposed under ARRA to support hiring newly recruited faculty members in multidisciplinary areas, so at least 141 faculty searches were saved.

He also coordinated the writing of several large grant proposals within his department and collaborated with faculty who eventually hired him.

«Symbolically, it's important because by the end they were sort of accepting us as true faculty members, not just hired hands.»

When he was recruited to Clemson University to chair the human - centered computing division in the school of computing, he also made it a priority to hire other minority faculty.