Sentences with phrase «when faculty members»

That happened recently when some faculty members at a small Catholic college in North Carolina filed a complaint.

A low - performing California school district experienced a dramatic turnaround when faculty members began studying student assessment data and working together to ensure students had the support they needed.

When faculty members found start - up biotechnology companies, the opportunity for enrichment — in both senses of the word — is particularly pronounced.

Universities could also help by supporting these efforts, including recognizing outreach work when faculty members are considered for tenure, she said later.

A new study reports that, when faculty members rated hypothetical candidates for a tenure - track faculty position, a highly qualified woman is twice as likely to be hired as an equally qualified man.

It must be painful to watch when faculty members who support you face investigations and threats, or when your presence seems to divide the community you love.

The trouble is, Faith's starting to ask for tee - shirts from schools I haven't visited recently — schools she reads about, or sees when we watch a basketball game, or learns about when a faculty member stops by for dinner at our apartment.

One of the worst moments was when a faculty member made an obnoxious statement during the open - question period of my research seminar that had no possible response.

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«I worry we've left out the most vulnerable people, so we might make erroneous statement like the income gap is shrinking when it's not,» said Dr. Martens, who is also a professor at the University of Manitoba's faculty of medicine and member of the Order of Canada.

You can sense the energy when you walk into the building and mingle with the 1,300 or so master's and doctoral students and 168 faculty members.

The former gymnast, who was a 15 - year - old homeschooler when she says Nassar started abusing her, became the first to publicly make allegations against the respected Michigan State University faculty member.

«We can't assign library research,» a typical faculty member reports, «because our students are in class pretty much the whole time they're on campus, and they don't have access to a theological library when they go home.»

Indeed, Tietjen first learned of the investigation when Concordia professor Frederick Danker reported having accidentally overheard a conversation between Jacob Preus and his brother Robert, also a member of the Concordia faculty.

Three years later, however, when he presented the name of a Baptist faculty member to be dean.

This theology began to take shape in the early 80's when A.P. Nirmal, then a faculty member at the United Theological College, floated the idea of «Shudra Theology.»

Buckley, a Catholic, recalls that when he was a teenager he took pride in announcing that he would skip Friday chapel at his Protestant boarding school and walk five miles with several other students and one faculty member to attend mass.

Because specialization sets the terms for a faculty member's participation in the life of a school, it is perhaps the most powerful structure at work in faculty life: the faculty member's existence and legitimation are at stake when his or her field is threatened.

The thrust of education at Southern Seminary, therefore, has been solidly academic, and faculty members often drag their feet when someone suggests more deliberate attention to the cultivation of piety.

How does a college maintain its vision when the original faculty members yield their podiums to eager young scholars?

When seven members of the faculty said they would resign unless the 14 were reinstated, the Touchdown Club in Casper said it was raising money to get the seven out of the state.

A far more pertinent issue raised by Kristof's piece is buried in his subsequent blog post: «When I was a kid, the Kennedy Administration had its «brain trust» of Harvard faculty members, and university professors were often vital public intellectuals who served off and on in government.»

When I became a faculty member, I was full of passion and confidence and was eager to fit in and measure up.

Today's funding system, adopted by the federal government in the wake of World War II, initially focused both on educating scientists to meet the nation's needs in an era when faculty openings were plentiful, and on encouraging faculty members to perform fundamental research.

When I found out that I didn't get the funding, I learned the hard way that the decision was made only by faculty members within my own department, so outside collaborations weren't a selling point.

When student support isn't enough to help a struggling student, Toliver and faculty members act as mentors, making sure the student stays on track.

It has also equipped me with a firsthand view of what industry is really like, an experience few faculty members can draw on when called to give career advice to their students and postdocs.

Specifically, I remember quite clearly the words of one faculty member when I was interviewing for graduate school.

When I started, there was only one other junior faculty member.

When a grant or experiment fails, I seek out others from my team to help strategize and come up with solutions, and the other team faculty members do the same.

When interviewing, if you are interested in doing research as part of your residency / fellowship, pay attention to how the department chair and the more senior faculty members talk about the program.

So when a junior faculty member with a 1 - year - old daughter is invited to speak at a prestigious international conference and her partner isn't available for childcare, what should she do?

«When I stood up there and gave my speech, and looked down at the faces of those faculty members who told me to my face that I would never make it, that was the most beautiful payback that I could ever have,» she says.

«When my department needs to hire another faculty member, I always look at the publication list and at citations,» Hirsch says.

When women have it all Jyoti Mishra, 27 August A young faculty member argues that it is, indeed, possible for a woman (or a man) to «have it all.»

When I have given presentations on diversity at conferences, I have often been approached by a faculty member who asserts that his department is already diverse.

Nelson's report corroborates a recently released study by the U.S. Department of Education that emphasizes the disproportionately high number of male S&E professors.10 The report also cites the salary advantage men of all racial groups enjoy over women.10 While the unadjusted salaries of African - American faculty members were lower than those of whites, when variables were controlled, the wage gap disappeared.10 However, the study cautions that the markedly lower numbers of tenured and working African - American faculty at doctoral institutions could obscure racially biased salary discrepancies.10

When it finally accepts students in 2012, the Okinawa Institute for Science and Technology (OIST) aims to provide a new model of a Japanese research university, scrapping the division into traditional academic departments, focusing on interdisciplinary research, conducting business in English, and drawing roughly half of its faculty members from overseas.

«There are certain phases when you need more mentoring, such as when you're an undergraduate or graduate student or when you're a junior faculty member,» she says.

For example, adjunct faculty members might fill in when tenured members take sabbaticals.

When I was a graduate student, a postdoc, and, I suppose, if I had ever become a faculty member, my salary was fixed.

When asked by Next Wave if he could provide an example of a specific instance when tenured faculty members could not respond to needed changes in the educational system, Koplik allowed that he could When asked by Next Wave if he could provide an example of a specific instance when tenured faculty members could not respond to needed changes in the educational system, Koplik allowed that he could when tenured faculty members could not respond to needed changes in the educational system, Koplik allowed that he could not.

When students arrive in a university, they associate themselves with a department and are taught by faculty members within that department.

But that plan was held up when La Sapienza faculty members insisted that he move full - time to Rome, Giardini says.

It is hard to understand this when you are young, but preparing to be a good faculty member means preparing yourself to sustain a career for 30 to 35 years.

When he heard that a fellow faculty member at Cornell had taken on a graduate student, Sophie Rittner, to replicate Chan and Kim's experiment, Reppy suggested that she work with him instead: just as in climbing, he needed a partner.

That cost sharing is based on the idea that an institution benefits from having a faculty member temporarily at NSF, both because of the added prestige and the knowledge and connections they bring when they return.

He retains an impish fascination with fireworks — an enthusiasm that cost him part of a finger when he was young — and has on occasion lit Roman candles in the corridors of Princeton, where he became a faculty member in 1938 and where he still keeps an office.

When it came to faculty governance, doctoral institutions gave non-tenure-track faculty members the least opportunity to participate — 50 per cent allowed it at the department level, only 10 per cent at the level of the faculty senate.

Tony Rothman, a faculty member at Princeton University, was equally surprised and indignant when, shortly before his book Everything's Relative: And Other Fables From Science and Technology went to press, his editors decided to nix the cover photo of Einstein.