Sentences with phrase «of tenure track»

«The presidents of research institutions are asking the government to start up a process of tenure track, as happens in other countries.

There may also be some flexibility in the length of the tenure track itself.

New Scientist speaks to people from both sides of the tenure track

Not exact matches

The presentation also called out Mick McGuire, Marcato's founder and head, for his «track record of losses in the boardroom,» citing his tenure on the boards of NCR, a consumer technology company, and Borders, the now defunct bookstore.

The numbers come from ISS QuickScore data, which keeps track of director traits, such as gender and tenure, at 4,100 companies in 25 markets.

We track and analyze each CEO's performance starting from day one of his or her tenure.

During his tenure as Minister of Finance, he erased Canada's deficit which was the worst of the G7, subsequently recording five consecutive budget surpluses while paying down the national debt and setting Canada's debt - to - GDP ratio on a steady downward track.

I've been saying for six or seven years now (four of those spent adnitcnujg post-degree) that I could and should be looking for work outside of academia, but only after five rollercoaster years on the academic market and coming * this close * to landing a tenure - track position can I happily and healthily say I quit.

There, quotas and tenure tracks entrench the practice and ideology of homosexuality, and show every sign of greater influence in the future.

First, institutions should aim to have as high a proportion of their faculties as possible be full - time, tenure track or continuing.

The project also offered part - time tenure track and other perks, including forty hours of emergency childcare per year.

After teaching anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley as a Visiting Assistant Professor for two years, he accepted a tenure track position (in anthropology) at Pomona College in Claremont, California, where he was awarded an Endowed Chair, and remained for twenty years.

Damien Bol is a Lecturer (tenure - track) in Political Behaviour at the Department of Political Economy of King's College London.

Despite these challenges, Teachout maintains that she has more than the requisite number of signatures and that her residency in New York has been uninterrupted since she accepted a tenure - track position at Fordham University Law School in 2009.

«I guess we'll have a chance to hear a little bit more of my biography, but I accepted a tenure track job here in June of 2009, and I've been here ever since.»

During his tenure as attorney general, Cuomo's unwillingness to speak to the media became a story of its own: the cable news channel NY1 created a «Cuomo Clock» to track the number of days that he had rejected the network's requests to come on its politics program.

The omens for Vince Cable's return were good given his excellent track record of working hard for local people during his previous tenure as our MP as well as his national profile on business related matters.

The author of a coming book on political corruption, she is on track for tenure at Fordham early next year.

But she was late, she says, in picking up on some of these messages during her first tenure - track position, at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Now that he is applying to tenure - track faculty positions, Yoder has thought carefully about how his metascience work fits in with the other aspects of his career.

Today, tenure track positions are very difficult to come by for even the most brilliant of candidates.

It may also be that the pressures to develop a stellar track record or the uncertainties of landing a tenure - track position proved to be too much.

For example, half the molecular geneticists with degrees granted between 2004 and 2007 work in the post-secondary education sector, 46 % of those women as research associates and 15 % as tenure - track faculty.

Even a cursory cruise through the science results, however, reveals a steady decline of the percentage on the tenure track.

Witnessing a postdoc miraculously make up for a mediocre PhD experience by being awarded a tenure - track position isn't one of them.

Only a minority of the postdocs working in university labs have opportunities to receive high - quality training from eminent senior researchers, develop their own research ideas, gain experience in lab management and grant writing, acquire contacts and a publication record and, ultimately, move into a tenure - track position at a research institution.

The possibility that I wouldn't be able to find a tenure - track position was painful, but the possibility of losing the relationship was worse.

The Foster Fellows program affords tenured and tenure - track academic faculty the unique opportunity to bring their research and expertise to the Department of State to assist in policy and programmatic development in arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament activities.

Upon taking a tenure - track position at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot 3 years ago, she set out to create the first structural mass spectrometry lab in Israel.

These satisfaction levels are quite close to those of tenured and tenure - track faculty, 38 % of whom reported they are «very satisfied» and 47 % «satisfied.»

When she took maternity leave for her first child 2 months after starting a tenure - track position, she worried this might cause colleagues to have a negative impression of her and limit future opportunities, she says.

After years of agonizing over the idea of leaving the tenure track, «I finally decided I was ready to close that door,» she says.

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.

In previous research, the authors, psychologists Wendy Williams and Stephen Ceci of Cornell University, found that men and women generally fare equally well once they are hired into tenure - track positions (although some critics have challenged those findings).

Starting in 2008, the Elsevier Foundation supported a program at UC Irvine, allowing it to offer travel awards of up to $ 1000 to help its tenure - track assistant professors and recently tenured associate professors cover the cost of bringing their toddlers (and also perhaps caregivers) to a meeting, or arranging additional child care at home.

Australia doesn't have a tenure system, but Cinner's career track could eventually lead to a steady stream of research fellowships.

But all that did was increase the number of poorly compensated postdocs waiting to get that rare tenure - track position.

The results, though not surprising, offer a reminder that, with so many people vying for so few tenure - track faculty positions, «trainees need to do more self - analysis of where they are and what the realities are for them to potentially become a faculty member,» says study author Nathan Vanderford, an assistant professor of toxicology and cancer biology and assistant dean for academic development at the University of Kentucky in Lexington.

González, who ultimately accepted a tenure - track position in civil and environmental engineering at MIT, says her experience is not unusual, especially among physicists doing network science, few of whom end up working in physics departments.

He gained both research and teaching experience, won strong letters in both areas, and went on to a tenure - track appointment at one of the nation's best liberal arts colleges.

If the sponsor is a university or institution of higher education, then the employer?s letter must confirm that the scientist is being offered a tenured or tenure - track teaching position, or a research position in his or her field.

Those doing research in physiological aspects of ecology or in plant physiology often needed to take postdoctoral positions before they could find tenure - track faculty positions.

After two years, however, the reality of short - term contracts kicked in and Pullin moved to take up another post-doc position in Utah, followed by a tenure - track position at Pennsylvania State University.

Having recently written about how contingent faculty, especially those who are no longer young, almost never get to move onto the tenure track, we were thrilled when we recalled — or were reminded of — a dazzling exception.

The analysis by Aaron Clauset at the University of Colorado Boulder and colleagues revealed that only 25 % of the institutions produced 71 to 86 % of all tenure - track faculty.

Tenure - track candidates are usually more than 75 % research and are expected to provide the majority of their salary and funding for their research laboratory from research grants.

The 2005 report included responses from 88 of the 140 graduate training programs that were members of the ANDP and indicated that women comprise more than 60 percent of the graduate students in neuroscience but approximately 25 percent of tenure - track faculty, a number that has changed little since 1998.

See the applications more directly Emiliani thought she had finally gained some stability in her career when she returned to Italy in 2000 to accept a ricercartore — a type of tenure - track position — at LENS, which was funded by the Istituto Nazionale Fisica della Materia (INFM).

Although university presidents on most other campuses are not announcing an official end to tenure, many of them are signing up full - time professors who will work on contract instead of on the tenure track.

Indeed, a quick search retrieved a lot of postdoctoral positions, along with a few Ph.D. studentships and tenured or tenure - track faculty positions.