... with advanced educations have greater cognitive complexity ... assignment experience or the career field's technical ... This theory is based on the ...

Reduced funding for educational programs indicated that a thorough review should be made of the Advanced Academic Degree (AAD) validation process. This reduction in funding necessitates more effective management of the AAD program in the logistics career ...

Virginia Tech is the recipient of a five-year ADVANCE Institutional Transformation grant from the National Science Foundation designed to increase the participation and advancement of women in academic science and engineering careers by changing institutional culture and practices. AdvanceVT is ...

BackgroundWithin the framework of a prospective cohort study of Swiss medical school graduates, a Career-Success Scale (CSS) was constructed in a sample of young physicians choosing different career paths in medicine. Furthermore the influence of personality factors, the participants' personal situation, and career related factors on ...

... a peer network and establish mentoring relationships with senior scientists, which could prove useful for advancement in their academic careers. According to Forde, the symposium's goal was ... ...

The authors assessed the career maturity of students in accelerated versus traditional academic programs. Students in traditional programs were hypothesized to be more advanced regarding their career decision making and development when compared with students in accelerated programs. The Medical ...

BackgroundWithin the framework of a prospective cohort study of Swiss medical school graduates a sample of young physicians aspiring to an academic career were surveyed on their career support and barriers experienced up to their sixth year of postgraduate training.MethodsThirty-one junior academics took part in ...

Despite advances made in the proportion of women choosing to pursue science and engineering careers, women continue to be significantly underrepresented in almost all science and engineering fields. The goal of the ADVANCE program is to increase the representation and advancement of women in ...

Purpose: This paper aims to examine the influence of individual and organizational variables on the career advancement of academics in Malaysian private universities. Design/methodology/approach: A correlation study was conducted in six private universities. Data were collected using a structured self-administered questionnaire. The ...

The overall mission of the National Science Foundation's ADVANCE Program is to increase the participation of women in the scientific and engineering workforce through the increased representation and advancement of women in academic science and engineering careers. The goal of this project is to contribute to the ...

Home page of the NSF Advance Portal Website. This site aims to link the activities of Advance Institutional Transformation Grant recipients. The site is organized around faculty development, work life, ADVANCE program information, research links, news, assessment data, ADVANCE institutions, toolkits, and feature ...

This talk will describe opportunities for early career faculty members in the physical sciences to obtain funding for scientific research and educational projects. I will discuss programs offered by Research Corporation for Science Advancement, a private nonprofit foundation, which include opportunities for scientists at primarily undergraduate ...

The New Directions in Engineering Excellence series is a collection of practical resources for educators derived from academic research and designed for use in encouraging student awareness of engineering careers, promoting student retention in academic programs, and advancing students' personal and ...

Electrical engineer Robert Whitman and microbiologist Gilbert John have pursued academic careers in order to advance their own research and serve as role models for Native American students. After receiving Ph.D.s, Whitman and John were appointed assistant professors at research-oriented universities. Sidebar addresses the role Native ...

Building on a panel presentation titled "Career opportunities for behavioral scientists: Non-academic research settings," given at the November 2004 meeting of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, this article presents the experiences of three clinical psychologists who have careers in ...

Objective: This article describes initial efforts by the newly developed Clinician-Educator Section (CES) of the Association for Academic Psychiatry (AAP) to support the career advancement of academic faculty within psychiatry. The CES provided its first workshop at the 2005 AAP annual meeting, focusing on early ...

The Advancing Biomedical Research Workforce Diversity - NIGMS Workshop for Postdocs Transitioning to Independent Positions was held March 11-12, 2010 on the NIH campus.

Best practices from the NSF ADVANCE Program to increase the representation and advancement of women in academic science and engineering careers. In the process of measuring change and development some ADVANCE institutions are able to publish their findings. Additionally, some institutions have ...

Organizations currently holding NSF ADVANCE Institutional Transformation awards are not eligible to apply for an institutional transformation award. Limit on Number of Proposals: Institutional Transformation proposals: Organizations may submit only one Institutional Transformation proposal. To address these and other challenges, the ADVANCE Program ...

This booklet is designed to help high school educators explore using career pathways as a meaningful organizational tool for schools and students. The guide begins with a discussion of career pathways within which students choose or design a career major and the effect of career pathways on schools and students. ...

Who Will Do the Science of the Future? is the summary of a symposium on careers of women in science. The symposium incorporated three panels of presenters: one focusing on the next generation, Science for All Students; a second that looks in depth at the issues reflected in one particular field of science, computer science, reflecting an in-depth view of ...

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Teachers who work together to blend academic and career/technical (CT) instruction have found a key to motivating students to complete high school and prepare for college, advanced training and careers. This newsletter highlights key strategies schools are using to join academic and technical ...

Major effort and expense are devoted to faculty recruitment. Subsequent direction, support, and guidance of faculty members for retention and academic advancement are often inconsistent and ineffective. Individual mentorship is widely endorsed as an important element in advancement but often does not occur or is uneven in its pragmatic ...

Best practices from the NSF ADVANCE Program to increase the representation and advancement of women in academic science and engineering careers. Understanding how to encourage and propagate women in science and engineering many programs, studies, and initiatives must take place. The following categories explore how ...

Most of those who graduate with an advanced degree in biomedical engineering must choose between a career in academia or industry. In this paper, various aspects are discussed, including publications and patents, decision criteria between a scientific career and business management, importance of a business hypothesis to parallel ...

Best practices from the NSF ADVANCE Program to increase the representation and advancement of women in academic science and engineering careers. In order to measure change before and after a program has been initiated, assessment must be considered and data collected. Various types of surveys and measures of change ...

Applications are now being accepted for the National Science Foundation (NSF) Visiting Professorships for Women Program. Under this program, women scientists and engineers from industry, government, and academia can be visiting professors at academic institutions in the United States.The program's objectives are to provide opportunities for women to ...

application process � To motivate undergraduate students to pursue an academic career � To recruit.7% women, 46.3% men � 7.3% African American,5.1% Asian/Pacific Islander, 2.9% Chicano/Other Hispanic, 0.7% Native American, 9.7% International � Approx. 5,052 faculty and academic staff Summer Research

This report, the first "Annual Career and Technical Education High School Report" was created to serve as a rich resource for educators, school and college administrators, policymakers, and other citizens by providing essential summative data on career and technical education in Iowa at the high school level. Students increasingly need ...

COAChing (Committee on the Advancement of Women Chemists) was formed in 1998 by a group of senior women chemists to address issues related to the documented disparity in hiring, promotion, and advancement of women faculty in academic chemistry departments in the United States. Several national programs have been launched by COACh that ...

Careers Service The Role of the Careers Liaison Officer (CLO) Context For most students employment. The role of the Careers Liaison Officer (CLO) within academic departments is central to ensuring and encourage an integrated service for students.) 1. Links with the Careers Service CLO to act as ...

It has been stated that academic medicine is in a worldwide crisis. Is this decline in hospital academic practice a predictable consequence of modern clinical practice with its emphasis on community and outpatient-based services as well as a corporate health-care ethos or does it relate to innate problems in the training process and ...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: This article will provide a review of mentorship in academic medicine. The review will include definitions and an overview of the evidence supporting the benefits, barriers, and structure of mentorship programmes in academic medicine and anesthesia. Finally, we will identify areas of further research. RECENT FINDINGS: Mentorship in ...

The politics of dual-career academic couples, and the policies directed toward them, have been dissected and debated at length. Rarely mentioned, however, is how an academic career can be affected by a husband, wife, or significant other who is not on the professorial track. Most pairings of professor and ...

Empowerment of faculty is essential for academic success. The Junior Faculty Development Program (JFDP), sponsored by the Office of Professional Development of the Penn State College of Medicine, was established in 2003 with the goal of promoting the development and advancement of junior faculty so they can achieve success in their ...

"The Academic Careers in Engineering & Science (ACES) program at Case Western Reserve University is part of the National Science Foundation (NSF) ADVANCE program to develop a national science and engineering workforce that includes the full participation of women at all levels of faculty and academic ...

Most school library media centers have a number of resources available to assist in the career planning process. Typical career-planning books cover writing resumes and cover letters, the interview process, job banks, occupational descriptions, and salaries. Keeping current on careers can be a costly endeavor for school library media ...

The ADVANCE program works to increase the representation and advancement of women in academic science and engineering careers, thereby developing a more diverse science and engineering workforce. The goal of UAB ADVANCE is to improve visibility and recruitment of women in the schools of Natural ...

Who Will Do the Science of the Future? is the summary of a symposium on careers of women in science. The symposium incorporated three panels of presenters: one focusing on the next generation, Science for All Students; a second that looks in depth at the issues reflected in one particular field of science, computer science, reflecting an in-depth view of ...

These pages are written for graduate students and postdocs who are considering or planning careers in academic geoscience. They describe the academic job search process (and give advice on navigating that process) and also describe what you can do to lay the groundwork for a successful career in academia.

Resources to help undergraduate students decide on a career path in microbiology wihtout an advanced degree.

... in the Careers of Academic Scientists and Engineers: A Literature Review Special Report Hypertext ... Science and Engineering or the Characteristics of Doctoral Scientists and Engineers pub series page ...

This column discusses academic appointments, requirements for appointments, and the appointment process. PMID:18792603

... Accession Number : ADA199339. Title : Mentorship as a Career Advancement Strategy in the United States Air Force Nurse Corps. ...

The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship of geographic mobility and institutional prestige to career advancement defined as administrative promotions of women seeking midcareer-, senior-, or executive-level positions at academic health centers (AHCs) and their medical schools or in non-AHC related medical schools in ...

BackgroundThe profile of the medical profession is changing in regard to feminization, attitudes towards the profession, and the lifestyle aspirations of young physicians. The issues addressed in this study are the careers of female and male physicians seven years after graduation and the impact of parenthood on career development.MethodsData reported ...

This website is all about advanced manufacturing including: Career Exploration, Manufacturing Career Pathways, Gold Collar Careers, Careers for the Future, and FAQs. It is aimed at manufacturing in Southwestern Pennsylvania, but has valuable information for the industry in general.

This article contributes to the Transcultural Psychiatry special issue of autobiographical articles on: ''The Personal and the Professional: Lives and Careers of Cultural Psychiatrists.'' The author describes influences and themes in her professional development as a cross-cultural psychiatrist and academic. Growing up as a part-Chinese, part-white child ...

"he ADVANCE Program at Brown seeks to increase the retention and advancement of women faculty in science and engineering by facilitating the path to career success for all faculty. Funded with a 5-year grant from the National Science Foundation, the ADVANCE Program supports new initiatives for formal faculty ...

Type: Partnerships for Adaptation, Implementation, and Dissemination. Year Awarded: 2006. Description: The proposed project is an innovative approach to facilitate the advancement of senior women chemistry faculty members at liberal arts institutions to the highest ranks of academic leadership. This project will enhance the leadership, visibility, and ...

As program director of the gidakiimanaaniwigamig (Our Earth Lodge) program, native elder Holly Pellerin has worked to increase participation by Native American middle- and high-school students in local and national science fairs. Courtney Jackson, an award-winning science fair participant, joins Pellerin to discuss the impact of science fairs on her future academic plans. ...

To consider how interdisciplinary P-20 partnerships increase college-going rates among Chicano/Latino youth, the authors highlight evidence from the Educational Partnership Center (EPC) at the University of California, Santa Cruz, a P-20 partnership that builds academic achievement and college and career pathways. Three elements ...

The title, "Look to the past, Look to the present, and Look to the future," the motto of City College of New York, expresses how my family life and education led me to an academic career in physical chemistry and ultimately to a study of proteins. The economic depression of the 1930s left a lasting impression on my outlook and career ...

... Descriptors : *STUDENTS, *COURSES(EDUCATION), *COUNSELING, *VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE, CAREERS, MULTIMODE, SELECTION ...

... Descriptors : *COUNSELING, *EDUCATION, TEACHING METHODS ... PERSONNEL DEVELOPMENT, CAREERS, VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE ...

... described. Computerized academic counseling is discussed in the context of career success likelihood. Reccomendations ...

The ADVANCE Program at New Mexico State University began in 2002, with a successful Institutional Transformation grant from the National Science Foundation. This grant continues to work to extend women’s participation in academic careers in the sciences and engineering. Between 2002 and 2006, the strategies used doubled the ...

The health care professions have gained significant notoriety as one of the fastest growing career opportunities in the country. In particular, physical therapy has gained a reputation as a vital and significant member of the health care team. The physical therapy field has struggled to provide adequate services to meet patients' needs due to the shortages of physical ...

The goal of NSF's ADVANCE Program is to help increase the participation of women in the scientific and engineering workforce through the increased representation and advancement of women in academic science and engineering careers. The Program tries to address this under representation by focusing on support for ...

Best practices from the NSF ADVANCE Program to increase the representation and advancement of women in academic science and engineering careers. In an ideal world, everyone would work from nine in the morning until five in the evening. Real life is messier than that. Managing the balance between work and life is a ...

The topic of academic/research librarians with subject doctorates remains largely unexplored. Based on survey data gathered from subject-doctorate holders (excluding those with doctorates in LIS) currently working in U.S. and Canadian academic/research libraries, this article extends the analysis published by the authors in the January 2008 issue of ...

The development of, and adherence to, performance standards is imperative for success in today's competitive global market. This is as true for academic programmes in higher education as it is for the manufacturing and service sectors. Just like their counterparts in business and industry, it is important that graduate career preparation programmes are ...

This report examines how performance standards in reading and math on PLAN[R], the organization's college and career readiness assessment for 10th graders, compare to performance on the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a worldwide assessment of 15-year-old students' academic achievement. The results show that the performance standard ...

The purpose of this traineeship is to develop the academic and research skills of an expert advanced practice nurse towards achieving the career goal of becoming a Clinical Breast Cancer Research Scientist. In conjunction with the doctoral program, throug...

During 1976-77, the Berkeley Division of the Librarians Association of the University of California sponsored four seminars on career development for academic librarians. The speakers and their topics were: Archie Kleingartner (Vice President for Academic...

Chapter in Synthesis Lectures on Engineers, Technology and Society. "In this book we explore a sea change occurring in leadership for academic women in the sciences and engineering. Our approach is a two-pronged one: On the one hand, we outline the nature of the changes and their sources, both in various literatures and from program research results. On the other hand, we ...

"Women in computer science or computer engineering graduate programs often find themselves an isolated minority. Many departments have an overwhelmingly male enrollment and few, if any, female faculty members to serve as mentors or role models. In response, the CRA Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W), with support from the National Science Foundation, organized a series ...

DO-IT serves to increase the success of people with disabilities, especially in fields where they have traditionally been underrepresented, such as science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. DO-IT uses technology to maximize the independence, productivity, and participation of students with disabilities in academic programs and careers. DO-IT ...

"The First-Year Engineering Program is a student-oriented, service program tasked with recruiting, advising, teaching, and retaining outstanding Purdue Engineering students. The first-year curriculum provides a solid academic foundation and overview of engineering fields and careers. The Interdisciplinary Engineering Program is for the undergraduate ...

The present study examines the career trajectories of academic scientists during the period from 1993 to 2001 to explore gender differences in mobility. Data from the National Science Foundation's Survey of Doctorate Recipients are used to examine and compare gender differences in the odds of promotion. The effects of age, marital and family status, ...

Contents: Introduction to Career Advice for Life Scientists II; The Lab Community; Dealing With Everything At Once; Scientific Citizenship; Writing And Publishing; Postdoc Issues; Career Transition; Grants; Academic Careers; Effective Presentation; Endnot...

Thomas Friedman's best sellers have raised awareness of our nation's need to remain competitive in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines. However, advances in these fields cannot occur without the proper cultivation of human potential. The usual costs of career assessment and planning systems preclude their scalability to ...

This article suggests a role graduate programs might adopt to meet the challenge of counseling students to take advantage of new career opportunities, not just relying on the allegiances that easily led graduates into traditional careers. It proposes a two-stage approach consisting of sets of nurturing activities--to help students arrive at well ...

ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE 2011; 18:981-987 � 2011 by the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine ABSTRACT: Objectives:? Due to the rapid growth in academic emergency departments over the past 20?years, recent significant changes in leadership have occurred. To prepare for future transitions, leaders in academic ...

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The rhetoric surrounding career education programs was examined by exploring two questions. The first question was which employment sectors anticipate significant job growth and what skill levels and academic competencies were required to work within those sectors. The second question was whether increasing the level of student knowledge and skill made a ...

Recent advancements in assistive technology, greater reliance on computers, and increased job specialization have resulted in employment opportunities in fields that were once considered unsuitable for individuals with disabilities. These careers include those in STEM. Many of these careers require knowledge and skills obtained through ...

Robert B. Mandell is the quintessential modern clinical scientist. Over his long academic career, he has pioneered many advances in contact lens practice, ranging from a more complete understanding of corneal shape to the effects of contact lenses on corneal health. His classic text, Contact Lens Practice, first published in 1965, was ...

The technical advances of the last century changed the understanding of the science of cutaneous physiology and pathology and the role of the dermatologist. The major challenges the international dermatologic community faces today are the lack of a common, logical, and accepted language within the specialty; long-accepted but questionable policies to ...

The discipline of academic general pediatrics (AGP) has been the foundation of the medical specialty of pediatrics since those caring for children became differentiated from practitioners of internal medicine. Virtually every academic medical center has been populated with generalist physicians who engage in patient care, teaching, research, ...

The goal of the UMES ADVANCE Program is to make major changes at the University which will increase the number of women in STEM disciplines, help women within these disciplines earn promotion, gain tenure, transition to leadership roles and reduce isolation within their departments. The three objectives are to: Increase the percentage of tenured women faculty in the STEM ...

Basic research that is conceptually and methodologically innovative and that fosters long-term research programs should play a role in the academic development of primary care, alongside more practical applied studies of specific clinical problems. A creative tension between the two has been a distinctive attribute of academic medicine and should be ...

This Occupational Competency Analysis Profile (OCAP) for business information systems is an employer-verified competency list that evolved from a modified DACUM (Developing a Curriculum) job analysis process involving business, industry, labor, and community agency representatives throughout Ohio. The competency list consists of 10 units: (1) data input, (2) computer operations, (3) local area ...

The Manufacturing and Product Development sector provides a foundation in manufacturing processes and systems, including machine tool, welding, graphic communications, and graphic design, for secondary students in California. Students engage in an instructional program that integrates academic and technical preparation and focuses on career awareness, ...

The program at Lehigh University has been very successful in producing a high percentage of students (42% of all graduates) who have entered academic careers as trainers of school psychologists. This article presents a conceptual model for the three variables that are considered as critical components of why students select an academic ...

The national need for well trained scientists and engineers is more urgent today than ever before. Scientists who are trained in advanced computational techniques and have experience with multidisciplinary scientific collaboration are needed for both research and commercial applications if the United States is to maintain its productivity and technical edge in the world ...

This study examines the underrepresentation of women faculty in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) by comparing the intentions of attrition and turnover between genders in Research and Doctoral universities. It is found that the two genders did not differ in their intentions to depart from academia, but women faculty had a significantly higher likelihood to change positions ...

ObjectiveThe authors developed mentorship programs to train minority junior faculty and advanced graduate students in mental health services research.MethodThe programs target �mentees� in the Southwest United States and offer long-term mentoring, seminars, group supervision, seed funding for peer reviewed research proposals, peer interaction, and weeklong institutes that ...

Objective: The authors developed mentorship programs to train minority junior faculty and advanced graduate students in mental health services research. Method: The programs target "mentees" in the Southwest United States and offer long-term mentoring, seminars, group supervision, seed funding for peer reviewed research proposals, peer interaction, and weeklong institutes that ...

Academic/Tuition Assistance; Accelerated Leadership Program (ALP); Biannual Center Colloquia @ IV&V; Career Development/Career Counseling � Center Colloquia ...

From the EB 2008 Careers Symposium "Mid-Career Transitions: Choices and Challenges." This presentation discusses the function and expectations of an administrative academic position.

... other areas researched by Joint Forces Staff College ... An Evaluation of the Air Force Logistics Career ... Academic Degree Position Validation Process. ...

High-quality career and technical education (CTE) programs can launch America's future competitiveness through increased student engagement, the innovative integration of traditional academic courses, and by meeting the needs of both employers and the economy as a whole. American students failing to keep pace with their international counterparts have ...

Todd Wolfson just finished graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania, and already he's landed a tenure-track teaching job in journalism and media studies at Rutgers University. One might think he's the embodiment of the academic dream, in which the struggle to earn a Ph.D. has long provided an entree to a fulfilling academic ...

To establish guidelines for more effectively incorporating part-time faculty into departments of internal medicine, a task force was convened in early 2007 by the Association of Specialty Professors. The task force used informal surveys, current literature, and consensus building among members of the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine to produce a consensus statement and ...

Based on a study on academic career paths of PhD graduates in Switzerland, this paper is concerned with the individual and institutional factors that affect transnational academic mobility in the postdoctoral period. It will be argued that the institutionalisation of geographic mobility in academic ...

Scholarship and publication are key contributors to career advancement in health professions education worldwide. Scholarship is expressed in many ways including original research; integration and synthesis of ideas and data, often across disciplines; application of skill and knowledge to problems that have consequences for health professionals, students, ...

An undergraduate or graduate degree in biomedical engineering prepares students to solve problems at the interface between engineering and medicine. Biomedical engineering encompasses evolving areas such as advanced medical imaging for diagnosis and treatment of disease, tissue engineering for designing and manufacturing biological implants for damaged or diseased tissues and ...

credit, etc. To determine how co- op fits into your specific academic plan, please see your academic16 Co-op is an academic program that allows students to gain paid industry work experience before.careers@usc.edu COOPERATIVE EDUCATION (CO-OP) BENEFITS A great way to evaluate your career ...

Publication statistics are ubiquitous in the ratings of scientific achievement, with citation counts and paper tallies factoring into an individual�s consideration for postdoctoral positions, junior faculty, and tenure. Citation statistics are designed to quantify individual career achievement, both at the level of a single publication, and over an individual�s entire ...

ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE 2011; 18:759-762 � 2011 by the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine ABSTRACT: Objectives:? The objective was to describe the early academic career activities of emergency physician (EP) scientists with recent Research Project Grant Program (R01) grant funding from the National ...

Type: Partnerships for Adaptation, Implementation, and Dissemination; Year Awarded: 2006. Description: The ESCALATE program, in collaboration with the NSF-sponsored ADVANCE program at the University of Michigan, advances on two fronts, career development and climate change, by developing and implementing nine strategies to improve the ...

" The Civil Engineering program is designed to prepare the student for a productive career in industry as well as advanced graduate study. It is formulated to create an awareness of the various professional avenues open to Civil Engineering students and to facilitate their placement. The program is sound in the fundamental principles of science and ...

opportunities and assist researchers with their funding applications. Alongside the basic funding opportunitiesResearch and Academic Career Development #12;Our Mission The University of Zurich is committed to generating and expanding scholarly understanding through innovative research. We support and encourage our

With support from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education in Washington, in July of 1974, the New York State Education Department began a special project to investigate and encourage non-academic careers for historians. The project focused...

PURPOSEFactors that influence hematology-oncology fellows' choice of academic medicine as a career are not well defined. We undertook a survey of hematology-oncology fellows training at cancer centers designated by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) to understand the factors fellows consider when making ...

Academic mentoring is increasingly being used by many universities as a tool to enhance the quality of research-led teaching, promote cross-faculty collaboration and encourage a mentoring culture and community. This article reports on a pilot project established to investigate the benefits of building flexibility into a structured academic mentoring ...

... rest of their academic careers. ... institutions. Some of these observers were American graduate students in Europe, the majority ...

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The Science and Technology Scholarship Program will strengthen that pipeline by providing scholarships to guide students toward careers in academic ...

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... of networks was the motivation of the ... Professional training and academic career: Institution ... �African American Women's Concerns about Cervical ...

realizing their potential in academic, professional, and entrepreneurial pursuits in chemistry, chemical engineering, and related fields! The Organization promotes careers in...

... and despondency to failure, achievement strivings, and ... insurgent ambush attacks, suicide bombers, and ... During his academic career he voluntarily ...

... described a factor (career goal, experience, intercultural relationships, personal attribute, etc.) thought to be related to learning a foreign language. ...

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Research article Medical school faculty discontent: prevalence and predictors of intent to leave academic careers

Academic Achievement. Awards. The Wallops Black History Club ... Each of the students will be pursuing careers in either computer science or electronics. ...

Based on new research exploring the training and employment of science and engineering PhDs in the United States, this book predicts that with constant future resources and with constant domestic employment outside academe, academic departments will produce an average 20% to 24% annual excess of new Ph.D.s over employment opportunities. The models show ...

"Based on new research exploring the training and employment of science and engineering PhDs in the United States, this book predicts that with constant future resources and with constant domestic employment outside academe, academic departments will produce an average 20% to 24% annual excess of new Ph.D.s over employment opportunities. The models show ...

Women in academic medicine are approaching parity without power. Although the number of women choosing careers in medicine has grown substantially over the last 35 years, there has not been a commensurate increase in the percentage of women in senior leadership positions. To redress this situation at the University of Illinois College of Medicine (UICM), ...

Volume 40, #4 Topics covered: -Fostering Science and Science Careers -150th APS business meeting -APS committee reports -EB 1998 preview -Career corner: non-academic careers for physiologists

questions to help you practice at http://career.ucsd.edu/_files/CommonlyAskedInterviewQuestions1.pdf. 4 or competitive? What kind of academic, personal, financial and career counseling is available to students; approach it as a conversation and a learning experience, not a test! HOW TO PREPARE The Career Services

Non-tenure-track (NTT) research faculty are perhaps the most under-recognized group of academic professionals on the campuses today, despite their increasingly important role within the expanding academic research enterprise. The American Association for the Advancement of Science reports that the amount of federal spending on R&D ...

This Occupational Competency Analysis Profile (OCAP) for nurse aide (NA) is a competency list verified by expert workers that evolved from a job analysis. It identifies occupational, academic, and employability competencies needed to enter the occupation; lists and clusters them into broader units; and details the competency builders needed to perform each competency. Within ...

This Occupational Competency Analysis Profile (OCAP) for animal management technician (AMT) is a competency list verified by expert workers that evolved from a job analysis. It identifies occupational, academic, and employability competencies needed to enter the occupation; lists and clusters them into broader units; and details the competency builders needed to perform each ...

Careers in academic health centers (AHCs) come with a unique set of challenges and rewards. Building a stable and rewarding career as a psychologist in an AHC requires the efforts of a whole team of players and coaches. This paper outlines the characteristics of AHCs and the general skills psychologists need to thrive in this type of ...

The loss of new investigators from academic science places the future of biomedical science at risk. Failure to obtain independent funding contributes significantly to attrition from the academic career path. In this article, the authors describe the Advanced Research Institute (ARI) in Geriatric Mental Health, a ...

For more than 40 years, Penta Career Center in Perrysburg, Ohio, has successfully served thousands of high school students and adults from Northwest Ohio. Calling a converted 1949 United States Army Depot building home, Penta serves students from 16 surrounding school districts, and offers programs in six core areas: arts and communications; business and management; industrial ...

In order to create a cohort of investigators who are engaged in health disparities research, scholarship, and practice, and to increase the amount of funding in the university that is invested in research focused on reducing health disparities, the San Diego EXPORT Center implemented 2 major initiatives: (1) the support of underrepresented minority (URM) junior faculty development and (2) the ...

The mission of NSBE is to " increase the number of culturally responsible Black engineers who excel academically, succeed professionally and positively impact the community". In addition to a natioanl conference, the objectives are to: (1) Stimulate and develop student interest in the various engineering disciplines. (2) Strive to increase the number of minority students ...

To consider how interdisciplinary P-20 partnerships increase college going among Chicano/Latino youth, the authors highlight evidence from the Educational Partnership Center (EPC), University of California, Santa Cruz, a P-20 partnership building academic achievement and college and career pathways. Three elements advance EPC ...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) funds ADVANCE with the goal of increasing the representation of women in academic science and engineering careers. At UTEP, the ADVANCE mission is twofold: 1) to value and build a talented, diverse faculty and recognize that a collegial, productive environment can be created ...

The Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, UNMSM, in Lima, Per�, is the only Peruvian institution working for the peruvian astronomical development as a career since 1970. We are conforming a network with international friend astronomers to invite them as Visiting Lectures to assure the academic level for the future doctoral studies in the UNMSM. The ...

This study attempts to identify the factors perceived to be important in choosing an Institution of Higher Learning (IHL) for distance learning. One thousand five hundred questionnaires were distributed to the first year students in the social sciences distance learning programs and 980 valid responses were received of Malaysian public university. The results show that the top three factors ...

The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) International has endorsed 5 Post-Doctoral Bridge (PDB) to Business Programs. The objective of these programs is to prepare PhDs from other academic programs for teaching and research careers in business. The authors solicited feedback from deans of AACSB-accredited ...

Abstract Background: Although women receive nearly half of all doctoral degrees and show a high interest in academic careers, the pipeline is leaky. The challenge of balancing life course events with career trajectory is an important determinant leading to premature dropout or slower career ...

Two literacy programs based at the State University of New York, College at Brockport (SUNY-Brockport) universities have achieved some success, but both programs have changed, for various reasons. University students have much to gain from their involvement in literacy programs, including the satisfaction of helping others, the opportunity to learn about the institutions and organizations in which ...

With baby boomers on college campuses nationwide getting ready to retire, those next in line--professors, administrators, and staff members in the middle of their careers--feel somewhat dispirited. They are more likely than anyone else on their campuses to harbor negative feelings about their jobs, career advancement, and the fairness ...

This study aims to describe a comprehensive strategy for success in academic gastroenterology by reporting common sense, but mostly previously unpublished, recommendations. The recommendation are based on expert opinion from personal experience mentoring 125 gastroenterology fellows and residents as a program director for nine years and from mentoring research while publishing ...

them to pursue careers requiring advanced education in mathematics, ... Studies show that girls do not take as many advanced mathematics and science ...

In response to the 1990 Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act, Ohio formed an ad hoc committee that identified the following components of tech prep: systemic change, partnership, expanded student opportunities, early individual career education, competencies, and advanced skills. Ohio's strategic plan for tech prep has two ...

is the primary source for academic and career counseling. The advisor is a recipient of all academic concern for academic and career counseling. The advisor is a recipient of all academic concern warnings issued through

Despite efforts to increase the number of women faculty in the STEM disciplines, the representation of women, particularly in higher academic ranks remains disproportionately low. As a means of addressing this issue, the National Science Foundation (NSF) ADVANCE Program has as its mission to increase the participation and advancement ...

... Advanced Contract Pricing ... the knowledge and skills of intermediate contracting personnel ... the variables that affect contract performance and ...

... Survey of the Electromagnetic Spectrum Management career ... JOB ANALYSIS, PROMOTION(ADVANCEMENT), ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRA. ...

their cumulative GPA falls below 2.0. The College Deans or the Director of the Career and Academic Advising CenterAcademic Standing � Dismissal, Probation, Suspension Academic Dismissal Definition As outlined above, academic dismissal takes place under the following circumstances: Students ...

Interviews with 162 10th-grade Mexican-American students in Chicago found that, of respondents aspiring to a career, both females and males overwhelmingly aspired to male-dominated careers. Females aspiring to highly male-dominated careers had higher levels of acculturation and academic achievement, higher ...

This Occupational Competency Analysis Profile (OCAP) contains a competency list verified by expert workers and developed through a modified DACUM (Developing a Curriculum) involving business, industry, labor, and community agency representatives from Ohio. This OCAP identifies the occupational, academic, and employability skills (competencies) needed to enter the medical ...

This Occupational Competency Analysis Profile (OCAP) contains a competency list verified by expert workers and developed through a modified DACUM (Developing a Curriculum) involving business, industry, labor, and community agency representatives from Ohio. This OCAP identifies the occupational, academic, and employability skills (competencies) needed to enter building climate ...

This Occupational Competency Analysis Profile (OCAP) contains a competency list verified by expert workers and developed through a modified DACUM (Developing a Curriculum) involving business, industry, labor, and community agency representatives from Ohio. This OCAP identifies the occupational, academic, and employability skills (competencies) needed to enter electronics ...

This Occupational Competency Analysis Profile (OCAP) contains a competency list verified by expert workers and developed through a modified DACUM (Developing a Curriculum) involving business, industry, labor, and community agency representatives from Ohio. This OCAP identifies the occupational, academic, and employability skills (competencies) needed to enter the dental ...

This Occupational Competency Analysis Profile (OCAP) contains a competency list verified by expert workers and developed through a modified DACUM (Developing a Curriculum) involving business, industry, labor, and community agency representatives from Ohio. This OCAP identifies the occupational, academic, and employability skills (competencies) needed to enter criminal justice ...

This Occupational Competency Analysis Profile (OCAP) contains a competency list verified by expert workers and developed through a modified DACUM (Developing a Curriculum) involving business, industry, labor, and community agency representatives from Ohio. This OCAP identifies the occupational, academic, and employability skills (competencies) needed to enter carpentry ...

This Occupational Competency Analysis Profile (OCAP) contains a competency list verified by expert workers and developed through a modified DACUM (Developing a Curriculum) involving business, industry, labor, and community agency representatives from Ohio. This OCAP identifies the occupational, academic, and employability skills (competencies) needed to enter building and ...

To have a meaningful, fulfilling career in the 21st century workplace, students need technical and academic skills as well as the ability to think and work collaboratively with others. Career education must begin in middle school or earlier to allow students time to develop the aptitudes, skills and attitudes necessary to develop an ...