The shocking case last February, when a junior academic denied tenure by her faculty at the University of Alabama went on a murderous shooting rampage at a departmental meeting, can be dismissed as the act of a lunatic. However, it highlights the pressures confronted daily by young scientists seeking to establish their careers. Without dwelling on the details of the case, which are anyway a jud...

The main argument of this paper is that the experiences of the CBRLDP are unlikely to provide valuable lessons to aid the scale up of the model across the country because of the critical disjuncture between the neoliberal drive guiding the reforms and the popular perception of how land redistribution should actually proceed in communities with excess land. They favour restitution as a means of ...

Ruth Sara Connell is Associate Professor of Library Services and Electronic Services Librarian at Valparaiso University; e-mail: [email protected]. Thanks to Drs. Fred and Tschera Connell for their helpful comments and feedback on earlier versions of this paper. ©2013 Ruth Sara Connell, AttributionNonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) CC BY-NC This study examines h...

This study explored the impact of staff group role and length of organizational tenure in the relationship between the awareness of stress interventions (termed intervention awareness: IA) and the work-related attitudinal outcomes of university employees. A two-wave longitudinal study of a sample of 869 employees from 13 universities completed a psychosocial work factors and health questionnair...

where she works with Dr Richard M. Peek. Dr Noto provides practical advice for succeeding in a career as a non–tenure-track scientist in academia. We hope this column will be relevant not only to research scientists but also to junior investigators considering this career path and principal investigators considering working in their own laboratories with research scientists. We welcome feedback...

Tenure and promotion are integral parts of the academic environment; however, in this era of growing shortages of faculty, as the baby boomers retire and the majority of dentists choose private practice, recruitment and retention may be affected by the way institutions handle promotion and tenure. A national survey of U.S. dental schools conducted in 2007 assessed the existence of multiple empl...

During the past three decades, the participation of women in medicine has increased from 10.6% (1986) to 19.7% (2012) in Japan. However, women continue to be underrepresented in the top tiers of academic medicine. We highlight gender inequality and discuss the difficulties faced by female surgeons in Japanese academic surgery. Using anonymous and aggregate employment data of medical doctors at ...

O ccupational therapy faculty members who seek tenure at research universities rarely focus on one role at a time. It is the nature of the faculty appointment to produce in a minimum of three areas-teaching, research, and service, which includes practice. Outstanding performance in these areas has served as the cri terion for the awarding of tenure, an important career goal for most academician...

Rickey D. Best is Dean and Jason Kneip is Archivist/Special Collections Librarian of the Auburn University at Montgomery Library; e-mail: [email protected] and [email protected]. ©Rickey D. Best and Jason Kneip This article relates an investigation of tenure and promotion practices for librarians at academic institutions. The study employed two surveys. The first survey determined the level of impact ...

Genomics researcher Mark Eppinger was starting to crave stability. Since arriving in the United States in 2004 from his native Germany, Eppinger had completed a postdoc and a stint in industry, and had been working for five years at the University of Maryland in Baltimore in a non-tenure-track post. Newly married and with a baby, he wanted to find a permanent job, ideally a tenure-track academi...