Sentences with phrase «on faculty hiring»

In the meantime, he said, there will be belt - tightening, like a freeze on faculty hiring he has imposed.

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.

Private institutions, including top - tier universities such as Harvard, Princeton, and Stanford, are keeping a tight grip on faculty hiring, including in the sciences.

Not exact matches

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 university must retain the flexibility to hire faculty in the areas where they are most needed, particularly where there is increasing enrolment, rather than on a one - for - one basis», says Stacey Lewis, spokesperson for the university.

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.

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.

They've hired retired faculty and recent graduates to read these longer applications (see «UMass Makes Diversity Investment» published on CNN.com).

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.

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.

At UC, postdocs hired on PI grants (known as employee postdocs) formerly received the same comprehensive health coverage as other UC staff and faculty members.

Specific issues addressed in ADVANCE Institutional Transition Awards are mirrored in the feedback on the POWRE program: faculty mentoring programs, dual - career hiring programs, pay - equity studies, strengthening family - friendly practices, campus climate initiatives, and more.

Citing a recent Boston Globe article, Blaser said that while larger research institutions like Harvard University have put many faculty searches on hold, smaller neighboring universities like Tufts and colleges like Emerson, Holy Cross, and Amherst are looking to hire «top scientists discouraged by the stiff competition» at larger institutions.

On this visit I pointed out to the head of the mathematics department that his department currently had no Chicano faculty and they had not hired a Chicano mathematician in more than 20 years.

MIT President Susan Hockfield says the report, based on interviews with women faculty members, demonstrates the «stunning progress» MIT has made in hiring more women and increasing their job satisfaction.

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.

On the other hand, a recent faculty hire will not have had a chance to accumulate a track record as a trainer of graduate students.

Mr. Baldwin said his research into hiring non-tenure-track faculty members «puts a human face on the issue.»

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.

Increasing emphasis on «translation» in academic life science focuses more research on applications and encourages universities to hire faculty members with a practical bent — and, often, industrial experience.

The nature of the tenure - track position is also expected to change as financial constraints force institutions to hire even full - time faculty on limited contracts.

It is only as a mature faculty member, trying to have an impact on the institution, whether in organizational issues, hiring, or student requirements, that she has become frustrated.

In our upcoming book, The Two Body Problem (Johns Hopkins Press), we examine the policies and practices employed by colleges and universities that try to respond to the needs of dual - career couples, focusing specifically on cases in which the initial hire is a faculty member.

Hiring a heterosexual dual - career couple brings in both a male and a female faculty member; in percentage terms, then, the effect on faculty diversity is diluted.

«We wanted to deconstruct [faculty hiring]... in terms of things we could measure, like publications, information about the prestige of the doctoral program, and so on.»

Their policies make explicit the necessity of reviewing the experiences and backgrounds of all potential hires, including those introduced through a dual - career policy, and having the faculty and administrators involved vote on whether the candidate meets the criteria necessary for the position.

Gender plays a complicated role in the hiring of computer science tenure - track faculty members, of which on average only about 15 % are women, according to a study presented today at the peer - reviewed International World Wide Web Conference in Montreal, Canada, and posted on the arXiv preprint server in February.

This portrait of the pupils, teachers, and local environment of Norway House Cree Nation — a robustly successful school and community center in Manitoba, steered toward the needs of Native students and the hiring of Native faculty — represents the 85 - year - old Obomsawin's 50th feature, and she is already at work on the 51st.

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.

I think this commitment is represented well by HGSE faculty members, including some hired during my deanship, for example: Nancy Hill with her work on parenting and family socialization practices across ethnic, socio - economic, and neighborhood contexts; Meira Levinson with her work on civic and multicultural education; Natasha Warikoo with her work on race, immigration, inequality, and culture as they relate to education; and Hiro Yoshikawa with his work on the development of young children in immigrant families.

«Many factors contributed to these schools» success — careful hiring, frequent feedback on instruction, strong norms for both students and faculty, student supports, and skilled management — but it was teams that knit these components together for the good of students.»

Junior faculty, for whom a given policy was «very» or «somewhat» important, rated the following policies as least effective on their campuses: childcare, financial assistance with housing, spousal / partner hiring programs, professional assistance in obtaining outside funding, and formal mentoring.

Marna now consults for PeopleAdmin, advocates for school districts and provides guidance on hiring the right faculty.

By drawing on the expertise of teachers throughout the hiring process, Belvin also strengthens her faculty's leadership.

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.

Hire qualified faculty and staff who are committed to seeing diverse students succeed and go on to college.

§ Be hired for full - time faculty employment on or after July 1, 2010 at a school of nursing in the State of New Jersey.

In 2016, Otis College of Art and Design President Bruce W. Ferguson designated a Diversity and Inclusion Task Force dedicated to pursuing proactive initiatives that establish diversity and equity efforts in the classroom, in faculty hiring practices, and in supporting students of color on campus.

At the center of this grand and somewhat on - the - fly experiment were Josef and Anni Albers, who had met as students at the Bauhaus and were the first fine art faculty members hired at Black Mountain.

As part of the hiring process each candidate will be on campus attending a series of meetings and will give a public lecture for faculty and students.

If many faculty members have been too slow to recognize the professional purposes of a law degree, many students — and the law firms that eventually hire them — have been too quick to turn law school into a jurisprudential version of the college football season and draft, with too much attention focused on what comes after graduation, not before.

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.

Chicago - Kent College of Law of the Illinois Institute of Technology provides equality of opportunity in legal education for all persons, including faculty and employees, with respect to hiring, continuation, promotion and tenure, applicants for admission, enrolled students, and alumni, without discrimination on the ground of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity.

Assistants Professor are also called probationary faculty as they are newly - hired, on the tenure track university staff.

✓ Effectively manages and motivates faculty, hiring the right staff, enhancing their output, designing and providing on the job trainings.