The Arc of the Academic Research Career Issues and Implications for U.S. Science and Engineering Leadership: Summary of a Workshop (2014) / Chapter Skim
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For neither institutions nor individuals, therefore, will a single, broad solution serve to provide resolutions to the issues of the present and the future. A second major theme is that, given the many changes now under way, the coming years will bring significant changes to some or all institutions.
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Whether long-term contracts or other alternatives to tenure could provide sufficient protection merits examination, participants added. As the academic world sees ever "more pressure on universities to tighten the belts and to watch very carefully where the money is going," the fates of the academic haves and have-nots are likely to diverge even further, Tanner said.
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The students are going to have to be educated to be more flexible, because it is going to be a more rapidly changing world" in which they will need a broader perspective, "as opposed to a very narrow, tightly focused perspective. That tightly focused expertise may not be wanted in the marketplace by the time they get there.
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