I'm very sorry to see that a few folks have had bad experiences in grad
school. Many of us had very happy and productive times as graduate students.
But I've seen enough over the years to recognize that faults in advisors, or in
advisees, or both can result in mediocre to bad outcomes – most of
Thought I'ld chime in about non-teaching faculty responsibilites.
In my last job I sat down and recorded all the committee work I was
involved in.
I discovered after a month that I spent 12 hrs in the classroom,
another 10 hours in
office hours, and I was in meetings with committees or filling out
Right now the government of Canada has hiring subsidies for under- and
un-employed individuals. According to them, underemployed encompasses 3
categories: employed part-time, employed in a position below your skill
level, OR employed in a contract lasting less than 6 months.
On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 a
Mal, I always thought that "under-employed" meant working in a job that was
below your training, not a comment on full or part-time status, or term or
permanent (although you could argue about that last one I suppose). So
underemployed for a PhD might be working in a job that only required a
Maste
Hi ESA students,
My name is Joey Bernhardt and I'm the new chair of the ESA Student Section.
Together with Kika Tarsi, the Student Section vice-chair, we are starting
to plan for student workshops and events at the ESA annual meeting in
Minneapolis in August 2013. Each year, we support events spec
I could be wrong, but
Under-employed does not = temporary.
Under-employed indicates you are not working fulltime.
There are plenty of jobs in life in which you are employed as a term employee.
That does not mean you are either unemployed or under-employed.
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 8:18 PM, George
Hi Aaron, thanks for you thoughtful commentary, as for my comment about
faculty publishing independently I think that you have read more into it
than I meant. What I did mean, and still believe, is that a faculty member
should have research productivity that is their own rather than just
through th
Thank you Dr. Grossman for the article. It contains very good advice
and is well written and timely - again. :)
Of course for agencies and organizations to cure the systematic ills in
academia today, they should look at an article like this as an
instruction or "to-do" list as they evaluate f
"Borrett wrote:
> Colleagues,
>
> We need to be careful about the assumption that the only "real" job for a
> person trained with a PhD is a tenure track faculty job. I do not believe
> this assumption to be true. Several of my colleagues are using their degree
> in the private sector.
The French have an expression which describes the current grad. school
situation and advice that's been given (at least to us old-timers) that
goes "plus ca change, plus c'est le meme chose" (apologies for the lack of
accents) which translates loosely into our English expression "the more
things ch
Colleagues,
We need to be careful about the assumption that the only "real" job for a
person trained with a PhD is a tenure track faculty job. I do not believe this
assumption to be true. Several of my colleagues are using their degree in the
private sector.
Respectfully,
Stuart
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The Department of Integrative Biology at the University of South Florida
invites applications for a full-time, continuing, non-tenure earning
Instructor (9-month appointment, 100% teaching) with promotional career path
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have a
I agree with the post below. I had fantastic advisors for my PhD and
postdocs. I had a lot of independence and always got
first/corresponding author status for my own work. And the process is
long, but doesn't have to take forever - even in the US you can do a
biology Ph.D. in 5 years.
HOW
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