Sentences with phrase «writing faculty status»
connecting your legal writing classes with students» other foundational courses; connecting and collaborating with other faculty to improve your students» ability to transfer what they have learned to clinics, externships, and jobs; connecting legal writing classwork with clinics or external nonprofits; connecting with alumni and practitioners; connecting with other legal scholars; and connecting with others to help improve legal writing faculty status.
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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.»
«Although the definition of underrepresented minority is evolving to reflect local and regional perspectives, findings from this study demonstrate that faculty who are underrepresented in medicine, relative to the general population, have seen little increase in absolute or percentage representation across all schools during this time period, while the prevalence of individuals of underrepresented minority status in the general population had increased to greater than 30 percent by 2010,» the authors write.
• In News & Analysis, Yudhijit Bhattacharjee wrote about troubles at the Lick Observatory near San Jose, and other California observatory facilities, after a decision by the University of California's (UC's) Office of the President to cut off funding for the salaries of 11 faculty and staff members at the University of California Observatories system who are perceived by some to enjoy privileged status, with a lighter teaching load than other UC scientists and an 11 - month contract instead of the 9 - month contracts of other UC faculty.
Some of our colleagues at UNLV have conceptualized the evolution of legal writing scholarship as a series of leaps.2 The first big leap was to take an interdisciplinary approach to writing about teaching writing.3 The second leap was to build community by creating spaces of our own, such as LWI, the Journal, and then later, JAWLD.4 The third leap was to develop a rich, often interdisciplinary approach to studying and writing about legal writing.5 In their article, Linda Berger, Linda Edwards, and Terry Pollman suggested — hoped, perhaps, and I along with them — that scholarship relating to legal analysis, skills and practice is no longer considered inferior to traditional legal scholarship.6 The growing number of schools where legal writing faculty have achieved equal status due at least in part to their legal writing scholarship suggests we have made significant progress as a result of these leaps.7
ALWD and LWI both engage in a variety of activities that relate to status issues facing legal writing faculty within the legal academy.