Dear all, my apologies for an off-topic posting, but this is relevant to the survival of Sage-related (and Pure Maths in general) research in one academic institution....
My University (mostly Engineering) is in the midst of changing its tenure and promotion requirements, and is currently inclined to impose the same blanket tenure requirements on Engineering, Science, and Maths faculty alike. One of the requirements is being the principal investigator on a large (US$150K or more?) grant. Another requirement for tenure is to graduate at least one PhD student, and for Full Prof. promotion to graduate at least five PhD students. Needless to say, this makes Maths, in particular Pure Maths, horribly disadvantaged, and would effectively kill tenure chances for me and quite a number of my colleagues. I was asked by my Head of Division (and Head of School) to help to dig up any relevant information on such requirements at universities with a tenure system across the world, so that we can build up our case for these requirements to be in line with the worldwide practice. If you are familiar with tenure and promotion policies at your university, and can provide me with data on how this is treated in your university, please send me an email. Many thanks in advance, Dmitrii Pasechnik http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/dima/ email: d...@ntu.edu.sg email: dimp...@gmail.com -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
