Questions tagged [promotion]
The act of moving up an academic rank, such as from an assistant to associate professor.
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MSc in education for an assistnat professor in computer science
What are your thoughts about getting an MSc in education while being an assistant professor? my UK university requires assistant professors to go through a number of courses, and upon completing them ...
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Asked to write a letter of recommendation for promotion for an abusive former professor
I've recently been asked to write a letter of recommendation for tenure and promotion for my former advisor from graduate school. This is for a potential promotion/tenure a few years down the line.
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Is it worth regularly publishing in unknown business & management journals?
I notice some business & management full professors regularly publish in unknown or low rank journals. Yet I have previously been advised to be very careful where I publish. Is there value in the '...
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Is promotion from staff scientist to professor possible? (Considering job offer in US)
I am a researcher making its way (very slowly) to professor in Europe. After several years of effort and relocations, I have now my own research program and have earned a promotion to supervise PhD ...
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Letter for Advisor's Promotion
I've been asked by my former department to write a letter for my doctoral advisor's promotion. What kind of information do departments typically want in these letters?
They specifically asked to ...
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Research promotions in the middle of post-doc contract
I noticed that a few people in my field (Computer Science / Community Informatics) have taken up post-doc positions immediately after their PhD but within a year of starting those post-docs have been ...
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Which is more important in academic promotion: getting funding, or its secondary effects? [closed]
Follow up question to How does research funding work in determining academic promotions? since it was too broad.
Take two equally talented researchers, Alice & Bob. Alice has acquired a large ...
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Can one compensate for poor funding performance elsewhere in determining academic promotion?
Follow up question to How does research funding work in determining academic promotions? since it was too broad.
Take two equally talented researchers, Alice & Bob. To what extent will it matter ...
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Does the source of funding matter in determining academic promotion?
Follow up question to How does research funding work in determining academic promotions? since it was too broad.
Based on this answer, one needs to get funding to be promoted. Does the source of the ...
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Is there a structured meritocracy outside of academia? [closed]
I am an engineering PhD student in the "academic bubble". I have no personal connections to the industry and have little to no clue as to how it operates. One of the things that appeals to me most ...
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Assistant professor does not collaborate with or cite fellow department members, despite them being experts on the topic
I serve on a Promotion and Tenure committee for an assistant professor who has (in my opinion) a lack of professional courtesy and collaborative attitude. This professor will collaborate and publish ...
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Personal contribution in N-author articles vs single author articles
In a given field there are essentially two types of articles, N-author articles and single author articles. Related to this fact, I wonder how a committee when evaluating someone for a tenure ...
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What happens when departmental tenure and promotion committee falsifies the record? [closed]
The department I work in has been dysfunctional, and there is a history of reversals of decisions where both yes and no votes were overturned by the university level committee. Very recently, a ...
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How to communicate realistic expectations for science faculty research to administration
I teach at a small US liberal arts college with no graduate students. There is no support for research, and the teaching load is 4-6 courses per year.
A colleague was recently denied promotion to ...
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Common for department guidelines/traditions to require tenure track academics rotate courses? [closed]
In the context of academics in research universities on their tenure track; how common is it for their promotion and tenure to be conditioned upon how many courses they have taught?
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