Enhancing Faculty Careers

Faculty Careers: Satisfactions and Discontents

Enhancing the Automated Analysis of Criminal Careers

Four enhancements have been devised, both on a semantic and efficiency level, that improve existing methods of automated criminal career analysis. A new distance measure was introduced that more closely resembles the reality of policing. Instead of previous, more rigid, comparison of career changes over time we propose an alignment of these careers. We employ a faster and better method to clust...

Reflections on academic careers by current dental school faculty.

During the inaugural year (2006-07) of the Academic Dental Careers Fellowship Program (ADCFP), 110 faculty members at ten different dental schools were interviewed by dental students who were participating as ADCFP fellows in this year-long program designed to introduce them to faculty roles and activities and help them gain an appreciation for the rewards and issues associated with academic li...

New careers , more complex careers ?

The article deals with the question whether careers have indeed become more complex during the last years and/or decades by applying methods stemming from chaos research. The movements of 215 business school graduates from two different cohorts (graduation around 1970 and 1990 respectively) along two career-related dimensions (coupling, i.e. careerrelated security, dependency, and number of job...

Developmental Models of Faculty Careers: A Critique of Research and Theory