Sentences with phrase «tenure committee»

That rise is «a side effect of the shortage of positions, the taste of tenure committees, and the highly competitive nature of science,» he told Next Wave in a subsequent e-mail.

Just as doctoral dissertation committees seldom (and only under extraordinary conditions) change, so should tenure committees remain stable.

In the new collective agreement, DFA secured an expedited arbitration process of 90 days when the president overturns the peer - review decision of the university tenure committee.

In service to the College of Medicine, Lang has served on several executive search committees, and was a member of the Woodward Educational Steering Committee and the Committee on Undergraduate Medical Education and chairman of the Promotion and Tenure Committee for the Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology.

Universities and especially tenure committees need to be more supportive of scientists devoting time to outreach, especially for those conducting the so - called «lightning rod» research.

Herrmann compares them to academic tenure committees that fret over whether blog posts count as scholarly publications.

There is simply not enough time in a busy researcher's schedule to bother with pie - in - the - sky plans; so much emphasis is placed on getting results — by tenure committees, grant - review boards, and so on — that the pressure to take the safe option wherever possible is strong.

The next day, Prasher told the tenure committee to stop the review process and gave himself a year to find another job.

Now, there has been a push to reexamine the importance that tenure committees and journal reviewers assign to journal impact factors.

Earlier this year, a group of concerned scientists and journal publishers signed an open letter known as the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) to encourage review boards and tenure committees to «eliminate the use of journal - based metrics, such as Journal Impact Factors, in funding, appointment, and promotion considerations,» and to encourage the development of alternative metrics (altmetrics) to measure a scientist's research contributions.

But attempting to decipher what senior colleagues — specifically, those who serve on hiring and tenure committees — consider important, and how they evaluate «quality,» is challenging for any junior scientist.

Hiring and tenure committees, in their deliberations over the fate of faculty, still focus by and large on traditional metrics: publications in high - impact journals, citations, and grants.

Apparently, my tenure committee was a little worried about that too.

Blowing off «extras» such as teaching, committee work, grant - review panels, and so on, might result in you getting blown off as a bad colleague by a tenure committee, or as a bad collaborator by scientists outside your department who might be asked to write external letters.

Lynn Singer, a psychologist and vice provost at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, recalls having to admonish one tenure committee that had looked askance at the publication record of a candidate who had taken an extension.

Organize your years: Year one, meet with chairperson or tenure committee to discuss tenure requirements.

Yet, especially if you're at a research - intensive university, your tenure committee will value your research accomplishments more, often far more.

At some institutions, candidates for tenure are offered the opportunity to recommend outside reviewers or to comment on the makeup of the tenure committee.

Fate, and the tenure committee, had other plans.

When Janet Rowe (not her real name) was denied tenure in a social science department at a western state university a few years ago, she believed the promotion and tenure committee had erred in judging her publication record.

Kalonji's lawyer, Michael Altman of Boston, says that faculty members on the tenure committee who were interviewed as part of the investigation noted that «people talked about the fact that she was married to an African and was politically left.»

One of my tenure committee members also there to observe my presentation, which means one observation down for the term.

• The quintessence of academia, A Serious Man: Arlen (Avi Hoptman) slanted in the office doorway, confiding in Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg) that the tenure committee has received letters... not that anyone takes them seriously...

Then over at the latest issue of The Law Society Gazette, a feature on what it takes to be a successful legal writer — i.e. one whose work is read by someone other than the client, the judge or the tenure committee.

Taryn Marks — Academic Law Libraries Special Interest Section (ALL - SIS), Continuing Status & Tenure Committee; Government Documents Special Interest Section (GD - SIS), Federal Depository Libraries Program (FDLP) Committee (Chair); LexisNexis Research Grant Jury