{"id":25022,"date":"2010-11-19T08:18:36","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T13:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=25022"},"modified":"2011-05-31T12:36:01","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T16:36:01","slug":"uconn-among-most-welcoming-to-junior-faculty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2010\/11\/uconn-among-most-welcoming-to-junior-faculty\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn Among Most Welcoming to Junior Faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a report from Harvard University, the University of Connecticut is among 32 institutions in the nation \u2013 and one of 15 in its peer group \u2013 that are most welcoming to junior faculty. The report was issued by the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education, a 160-member group tied to Harvard\u2019s Graduate School of Education.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/32-Colleges-Are-Named-Most\/125395\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chronicle of Higher Education<\/a>,<\/em> the Harvard survey was conducted among 15,000 junior faculty members at 127 institutions nationwide. Respondents were asked about their institution&#8217;s tenure practices, how clear the expectations are when it comes to being awarded tenure, and how well the faculty members are able to balance work and home life.<\/p>\n<p>The 32 selected as being most friendly were divided into three peer groups: doctoral and research institutions, which includes UConn; master\u2019s institutions; and baccalaureate schools.<\/p>\n<p>The other 14 schools selected in UConn&#8217;s peer group are:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Auburn University<br \/>\nBrown University<br \/>\nDartmouth College<br \/>\nDuke University<br \/>\nLehigh University<br \/>\nNorth Carolina State University<br \/>\nNorth Dakota State University<br \/>\nUniversity of Alabama at Tuscaloosa<br \/>\nUniversity of Chicago<br \/>\nUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<br \/>\nUniversity of Iowa<br \/>\nUniversity of Kansas<br \/>\nUniversity of Notre Dame<br \/>\nUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill<\/p>\n<p>The data collected through the survey will be shared with every institution that participated, as a way of creating \u201cbest practices\u201d to help ensure the comfort and satisfaction of new tenure-track faculty.<\/p>\n<p>The collaborative is planning future surveys for both tenured and non-tenured faculty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Harvard survey collected data from 15,000 junior faculty at 127 institutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[39],"class_list":["post-25022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-09 00:37:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25022"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36328,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25022\/revisions\/36328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25022"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=25022"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=25022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}