I had an interesting discussion last week with some ecologists who
are relatively new faculty members about what kinds of advice they
would offer to other new hires. Two ideas that they contributed were:
1) Tell your graduate students they will have to clean out their
office/lab space before you will sign the form certifying completion
of degree requirements for graduation (or you may end up having to do
that job).
2) Require Ph.D. students to have two manuscripts (one for M.S.
students) submitted for publication before you will sign the form
certifying completion of degree requirements for graduation, to
ensure that they have taken the next step beyond writing the dissertation.
Other ideas?
David Inouye
Dept. of Biology
University of Maryland
