Sentences with phrase «research for tenure»

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After graduating, he spent the first 14 years of his career working toward that goal, rising to head of research at the Bank of Canada, before leaving for a short tenure in the private sector.

For the next ten years, she buried herself in research to earn tenure.

Fortune Magazine called her «The Last Honest Analyst» during her tenure at Sanford Bernstein, and noted that hers was the most influential voice for research quality and integrity.

University tenure reviews look for evidence of research, teaching and service.

First tale: A tenured sociologist at a prominent research university, with a couple of books under his belt on related subjects, publishes the first - ever research, using a nationally representative sample, on the young - adult outcomes for kids raised by people who have same - sex romantic relationships.

I have not had to appeal to that oldest and best argument for the institution of academic tenure, the unqualified freedom of a scholar to move as his or her research and thinking lead, without being bound by past assumptions or present colleagues.

First tale: A tenured sociologist at a prominent research university, with a couple of books under his belt on related subjects, publishes the first - ever research, using a nationally representative sample, on the young - adult outcomes for kids raised by people who have same - sex romantic....

They often teach more courses in a single year than faculty members at research universities teach before standing for tenure.

Clancy, who is up for tenure next year, says she has considered the possibility that her metascience research could affect her tenure review, but that it never made her afraid to jump into the work she feels is so important.

In addition to his research, in his role as associate dean for community engagement and outreach he promotes and encourages community and pubic engagement activities, by including these activities in tenure and promotion criteria.

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.

After spending approximately 2 decades completing a master's degree, stints as a research assistant and research associate at WHOI in Massachusetts, a Ph.D. in biological oceanography at Oregon State University, and returning to WHOI for a postdoc and various other roles, Baumgartner is now an associate scientist with tenure, a title he earned in 2014.

Several publications in well - respected journals should be sufficient to meet the research requirements for tenure at Pomona, he says.

Restrict the possibility of spending time after graduation on research grants without enrolling into a PhD program; raise the minimum requirement for becoming a tenured researcher from a laurea to a PhD; transfer work load from the 1st and 2nd level degrees to the 3rd, and promote the latter as much as the two former; reserve the doctor title to PhDs.

When it comes time for tenure, promotion, and salary increases, noncorporate funding is typically given much more weight, «it's a springboard of core funding that allows you then to do good research that's of interest to companies,» explains Prichard, «without it, you're not able to keep up with the high quality of research.»

Moreover, committee service, like teaching and research, is among the factors that will be considered when I come up for tenure here at Claflin University.

First off, you need a detailed understanding of your institution's tenure process (timelines, procedures, clock - stopping policies, and so on); criteria (the particular balance of the three key criteria — research, teaching, and service — and what counts for which); standards (the performance threshold for each criterion, especially research); and the evidence needed to document your accomplishments (what needs to be in the tenure dossier).

I have a yearly contract, so I have less job security than tenure offers — though this doesn't worry me because in reality I can stay as long as I, with the help of my team, continue to secure funding for my research.

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.

Hence, young scholars should seek evidence that administrators and senior colleagues who will be evaluating them for tenure — especially those with a more disciplinary focus — are supportive of interdisciplinary research and aware of the challenges of evaluating interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary science.

Not many scientists have the audacity to change research directions in the early stages of their independent research career, and fewer still have the courage to leave a tenure - track position for a postdoc.

The tenure track is intended for physician - scientists conducting investigator - initiated research, affording adequate protected time and resources to develop an independently funded research program.

Findings from a study by Stanford University's Clayman Institute for Gender Research in Palo Alto, California, which surveyed 1222 partnered tenured and tenure - track faculty respondents (910 men and 312 women), indicates why the division of domestic labor matters — especially for women.

Research shows that in many disciplines, only a relative handful of programs in each field produce a large proportion of the Ph.D. recipients eventually hired for tenure - track positions.

At UCR, however, she has yet to get the much - coveted National Institutes of Health R01, an increasingly competitive grant that supports a research project for up to five years and an unspoken tenure requirement at many institutions.

The top - ranked department, at Harvard University, «successfully placed 239 political scientists at 75 institutions,» and the top four — Harvard University, Princeton University, Stanford University, and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor — have together placed 616 professors, which accounts for «roughly twenty percent of the total tenure - track lines in the discipline at research - intensive programs.»

As reported in a 2012 book, for example, Robert Oprisko, at the time a visiting professor at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana, and collaborators studied 3135 tenured or tenure - track faculty members in political science at 116 research institutions.

When you come up for tenure, you have to show your work in three areas: research, teaching and public service.

In order to assess the impact of your publications and research, committees often will study your citations during reviews for promotion and tenure.

The authors write that institutions should «increase bridge funding for promising faculty who are struggling to fund their research»; «lower the percentage of salary that faculty must cover through grants»; «improve administrative support for the grant submission process»; and «increase the level of formal acknowledgement of research collaboration expressed in the coauthor and coinvestigator status, both in the annual faculty appraisals and in the criteria for promotion and tenure.»

Public funding for academic research was in decline; more importantly, the number of tenure - track faculty positions was also declining.

He followed the prescribed path for an academic scientist: narrowing his focus first in graduate school, then identifying original avenues of research to pursue in his postdoctoral fellowship, and finally landing a tenure - track assistant professorship.

They have come to use it not only for deciding where to submit research papers, but for judging their peers, as well as influencing who wins jobs, tenure, and grants.

The strong U.S. economy and the dynamism of many fields of biomedicine, in both academic and industrial arenas, combined with a tight market for tenure - track positions at research universities in the United States, have led to a somewhat paradoxical situation.

Some PIs ignore tenure requirements for several years in order to get research under their belt — and then they have to scramble.

So, although she's applying for tenure - track jobs, she wouldn't mind just focusing on research for a while.

At Stony Brook, which he left in 2011, abandoning the tenure track, he spent about 20 % of his time on teaching, which wasn't enough to satisfy his passion for education, and he became disenchanted with the realities of grant writing and research.

She is currently an associate teaching professor, and in a few years, she will be able to apply for a promotion to full teaching professor in a process somewhat similar to the process of applying for tenure; that process, though, will highlight her teaching accomplishments, not research.

He had left the lab after a second postdoc not because he felt done with research, but because he didn't think he would be competitive for the tenure - track faculty positions he really wanted.

Scientists with tenured positions are required to spend at least 8 hours a week in the classroom, making it difficult to find time for research.

Sadly, these days such aspirations are overshadowed by fierce competition for papers, grants, and the tenured positions trainees need to build independent careers in academic research.

Higher - impact committees have more prestige but arguably more exposure: search committees for the recruitment of new faculty members, personnel committees for tenure and promotion, or institutional review boards (IRBs) for the enforcement of regulations and the approval of plans for human - subjects and animal research.

Stanford analytical chemist Maria Dulay, on the other hand, willingly turned down a tenure - track faculty job at Wake Forest University in Winston - Salem, North Carolina, for a long - term, soft - money position as a research associate in Richard Zare's lab at Stanford.

Faculty members protected by tenure kept their jobs, but mathematicians who had not yet attained it found themselves facing sharply heightened competition, which produced an «unprecedented 12 percent unemployment rate for new American mathematics PhDs» and «a dramatic decrease in the probability of obtaining a position in research universities,» the article says.

Wahl was on the tenure track in 2002 as a pathology researcher at Duke University, identifying cellular targets for cancer therapies, when funding dried up for her research and she consequently failed to get tenure.

For the majority of scientists who won't get tenure - track positions — and may not want them — Research Universities states that the great need is to «better position new PhDs for the careers they will have by providing more information about career options and by providing opportunities to acquire, in addition to the knowledge of one's field, skills that are useful for academic positions (teaching, grant writing, publishing, presentations) and positions in government, business and non-profits (oral and written communication, project management, regulatory compliance, business ethics and innovation.)&raqFor the majority of scientists who won't get tenure - track positions — and may not want them — Research Universities states that the great need is to «better position new PhDs for the careers they will have by providing more information about career options and by providing opportunities to acquire, in addition to the knowledge of one's field, skills that are useful for academic positions (teaching, grant writing, publishing, presentations) and positions in government, business and non-profits (oral and written communication, project management, regulatory compliance, business ethics and innovation.)&raqfor the careers they will have by providing more information about career options and by providing opportunities to acquire, in addition to the knowledge of one's field, skills that are useful for academic positions (teaching, grant writing, publishing, presentations) and positions in government, business and non-profits (oral and written communication, project management, regulatory compliance, business ethics and innovation.)&raqfor academic positions (teaching, grant writing, publishing, presentations) and positions in government, business and non-profits (oral and written communication, project management, regulatory compliance, business ethics and innovation.)»

In 2001, it also created the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies, a publicly funded foundation that offers attractive tenured positions and now employs 258 researchers across Catalan institutions.

Few people applying for tenure - track jobs have had the opportunity to start their own research programs.

The scientists assembled at the two meetings heard data that is incontrovertible and a take - home lesson that could hardly be clearer: There are not now, nor will there ever be, enough tenure - track jobs at research universities for all who want them.

The number holding non-tenure track positions (e.g., soft - money research faculty) has, meanwhile, increased 38.3 %, from 21,500 to 29,740.2 These data are sobering for young scientists who went into graduate school expecting to move into tenure - track positions when they emerged from their postdoctorates (or even sooner).