The Right Start-Up Package for Beginning Science Professors
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| Audience/Grade: | Graduate - Professional Development |
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All Science and Engineering General Engineering, Engineering Science |
| Special Topic(s): |
Academic Careers and Issues |
| Learning Resource Type: | Reference - Article/Document |
| Media Type: | WWW |
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Richard Reis
Organization: Stanford Universtiy Department: Center for Teaching and Learning |
| Description: | Article from the Chronicle of Higher Education, Chronicle Careers, August 27, 1999. The article begins: "Congratulations, you have just been offered a tenure-track assistant professorship at your first-choice institution. Now, however, your real work begins. You are entering the critical negotiation stage that may, or may not, bring you the resources you need for a successful academic career. To thrive as a beginning science or engineering professor you are going to need more than a good starting salary. Of course, such a salary is important. Not only does it help provide you with a needed standard of living, it establishes the base line for future raises and reduces the need for you to look for other, career-diverting ways to earn additional income. Yet many beginning faculty members think it's their job to hit the dean up for an extra $1,000 to $2,000 before accepting an academic offer. Such an approach not only creates resentment, it can make it more difficult for you to get the other things you must have to begin your tenure journey. As was noted by Eve Riskin, an associate professor of electrical engineering at the University of Washington: "Most faculty don't realize they can negotiate their start-up conditions in a way that will help them be more successful, as well as happy. My goal was to make my life easier, not richer. It wasn't the start-up salary, but the start-up resources I really cared about." Negotiating an academic job offer is about becoming part of an organization and a group of people with which you will have a significant relationship. You want to get the things you need to increase your chances of success, while remembering that you are going to work with these people for years to come." |
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Advice for prospective and junior faculty Richard M. Reis is director for academic partnerships at the Stanford University Learning Laboratory, and author of Tomorrow's Professor: Preparing for Academic Careers in Science and Engineering, available from IEEE Press or the booksellers below. He is also the moderator of the biweekly Tomorrow's Professor Listserve, which anyone can subscribe to by sending the message [subscribe tomorrows-professor] to Majordomo@lists.stanford.edu |
| Difficulty: | Easy |
| Interactivity Level: | Low |
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| Publication Date: | 1999 |
| Platform/Format: | WWW |
| Cost: | Free |
| Download URL: | http://chronicle.com/article/The-Right-Start-Up-Package-for/45611 |
| Metadata: | IEEE LOM Record |
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Tomorrow's Professor
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