How to Add Junior Tenure-Track Positions at No Additional Cost to the University

1991 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 482 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian L. Simon
Keyword(s):  
Additional Cost ◽  
Tenure Track ◽  
The University

scholarly journals Characterizing the University of California’s tenure-track teaching position from the faculty and administrator perspectives

PLoS ONE ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. e0227633 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley Harlow ◽  
Stanley M. Lo ◽  
Kem Saichaie ◽  
Brian K. Sato
Keyword(s):  
Tenure Track ◽  
Teaching Position ◽  
The University

Building and Unbuilding a Comics Canon

PMLA ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 134 (3) ◽  
pp. 614-619
Author(s):  
Andrew Hoberek
Keyword(s):  
Community Colleges ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Tenure Track ◽  
Good Sense ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
Past Work ◽  
Four Year Institutions ◽  
The University

The inaugural conference of the comics studies society, held in August 2018 at the University of Illinois, Urbana, was the most professionally diverse conference I've ever attended. There were presentations by tenure-track faculty members, non-tenuretrack faculty members, graduate students, and independent scholars; by people from four-year institutions, community colleges, and high schools; by literary critics, art historians, media scholars, research librarians, and working artists. Everywhere one felt the energy of a new field of study coming together, of institutionalization in a good sense: the gathering of past work to create a critical canon, the debate over methodology, the effort to establish priorities for moving forward as a discipline. he emotional palette that this event produced, at least for me, was an odd combination of excitement and melancholy—melancholy because, at a moment when traditional humanistic disciplines are having their support cut, it's hard to imagine a new ield getting anything like the resources or hires it needs to survive, let alone thrive.

scholarly journals Perovskite LEDs

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard H. Friend ◽  
Dawei Di ◽  
Samuele Lilliu ◽  
Baodan Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Tenure Track ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
Efficient Operation ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Display Technology ◽  
The University ◽  
Start Ups ◽  
First Time

Sir Richard H. Friend is Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge. In the 1990s, he reported for the first time efficient operation of polymer based FET and LED, which contributed to the commercialisation of OLED displays employed in current TV and smartphone devices. He is co-founder of several companies and start-ups including Cambridge Display Technology, Plastic Logic, and Heliochrome limited. In this interview, he and Dr. Dawei Di, who recently joined Zhejiang University in China as a tenure-track professor, discuss recent developments and future prospects of perovskite LED research and development. The interview is available at https://youtu.be/Fjcm4V36U2A

scholarly journals Silent science: a mixed-methods analysis of faculty engagement in science communication

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (04) ◽  
pp. A09
Author(s):  
Taylor T. Ruth ◽  
Joy N. Rumble ◽  
Lisa K. Lundy ◽  
Sebastian Galindo ◽  
Hannah S. Carter ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Spiral Of Silence ◽  
Tenure Track ◽  
University Of Florida ◽  
The Public ◽  
Effective Science ◽  
The Spiral Of Silence ◽  
The University

To address science literacy issues, university faculty have to engage in effective science communication. However, social pressures from peers, administration, or the public may silence their efforts. The purpose of this study was to understand the effect of the spiral of silence on faculty's engagement with science communication. A survey was distributed to a census of tenure-track faculty at the University of Florida [UF], and the findings did not support the spiral of silence was occurring. However, follow-up interviews revealed faculty did not perceive their peers to value science communication and were more concerned about how the public felt about their research and communication.

scholarly journals Care Work and Academic Motherhood: Challenges for Research and Tenure in the Canadian University

2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 85-99
Author(s):  
Yvonne James ◽  
Ivy Bourgeault ◽  
Stephanie Gaudet ◽  
Merridee Bujaki
Keyword(s):  
Post Partum ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Doctoral Degrees ◽  
Tenure Track ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Promotion And Tenure ◽  
Tenure Track Position ◽  
The University ◽  
Mothers Experiences

In Canada, women are earning an increasing number of doctoral degrees; yet, they are less likely to secure a tenure-track position. A feminist thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews with 20 academic mothers from two Canadian universities reveals the range of challenges that mothers encounter in relation to care on the tenure-track. First, the theme of “fear of post-partum academic erasure” captured faculty mothers’ experiences of feeling compelled to assert their physical and intellectual presence in post-partum during peak periods of infant care. The second theme, “the mommy tenure track and care choices,” encapsulated academic mothers’ experiences of feeling unsupported by the university in their pursuit of promotion and tenure given care responsibilities associated with motherhood. The final theme, “research while caring,” captured the tensions academic mothers experience between the research process and caring. The findings of this research are particularly relevant in a pandemic and post-pandemic environment, where academic mothers have seen their care work swell to unprecedented proportions.

scholarly journals POLLY HILL: CROSSING AND CONTESTING THE BOUNDARIES OF ANTHROPOLOGY, ECONOMICS, AFRICAN STUDIES, AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP STUDIES

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Dimand ◽  
Kojo Saffu
Keyword(s):  
Development Economics ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
African Studies ◽  
Secure Base ◽  
Tenure Track ◽  
Social Anthropology ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
Indigenous Entrepreneurs ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Ghana

Polly Hill spent her long, productive and at times controversial career crossing and contesting disciplinary boundaries. She graduated in economics at Cambridge, but her doctorate was in social anthropology – with economist Joan Robinson as dissertation supervisor. Her thirteen years at the University of Ghana were initially in Economics, then in African Studies, and her readership at Cambridge was in Commonwealth Studies. As a woman in several male-dominated academic disciplines without a secure base in any (and with distinctive, unorthodox opinions in each), she never obtained a tenure-track appointment despite ten books and fifty scholarly articles. Her books drew attention to the underrecognized agency of indigenous entrepreneurs while her Development Economics on Trial: The Anthropological Case for the Prosecution (1986) critiqued a discipline, of disciplinary boundaries, and of outside experts, both mainstream and radical.

scholarly journals A New Effort to Diversify Faculty: Postdoc-to-Tenure Track Conversion Models

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dawn Culpepper ◽  
Autumn M. Reed ◽  
Blessing Enekwe ◽  
Wendy Carter-Veale ◽  
William R. LaCourse ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Financial Incentives ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Racial Minority ◽  
Tenure Track ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Practice Review ◽  
Institutional Model ◽  
The University

Calls to diversify the professoriate have been ongoing for decades. However, despite increasing numbers of scholars from underrepresented racial minority groups earning doctorates, actual progress in transitioning to faculty has been slow, particularly across STEM disciplines. In recent years, new efforts have emerged to recruit faculty members from underrepresented racial minority groups (i.e., African American/Black, Hispanic/Latinx, and/or Native American/Native Hawaiian/Indigenous) through highly competitive postdoctoral programs that allow fellows the opportunity to transition (or “convert”) into tenure-track roles. These programs hybridize some conventional aspects of the faculty search process (e.g., structured interview processes that facilitate unit buy-in) along with novel evidence-based practices and structural supports (e.g., proactive recruitment, cohort communities, search waivers, professional development, enhanced mentorship, financial incentives). In this policy and practice review, we describe and synthesize key attributes of existing conversion programs at institutional, consortium, and system levels. We discuss commonalities and unique features across models (N = 38) and draw specific insights from postdoctoral conversion models developed within and across institutions in the University System of Maryland (USM). In particular, experience garnered from a 10-year-old postdoc conversion program at UMBC will be highlighted, as well as the development of an additional institutional model aimed at the life sciences, and a state-system model of faculty diversification with support from a NSF Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) grant.

scholarly journals Emancipating Minds and Practicing Freedom: A Call to Action

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorlene Hoyt
Keyword(s):  
Tenure Track ◽  
Call To Action ◽  
Scholarship Of Engagement ◽  
The University

The university, for tenure-track professors and others, can become an intellectual prison, an environment where you learn to follow the long-established rules in order to survive. This essay is a call to action, aiming to reach and mobilize learners in the academy who might feel alone and trapped in an institution that primarily rewards conformity. It is also a reflection on my own experience of the academy and the ways in which the Ernest A. Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement opened my mind and set me free.

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