Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 1980's, Volume 2 Reports of the Panels (1983) / Chapter Skim
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III. Other Issues in the Practice of Astronomy
III. Other Issues in the Practice of Astronomy
Pages 350-360
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We make the following recommendations, similar to those made by the AAS Committee on Ethnic Minorities, to encourage young members of ethnic minorities in the study of astronomy: (a) Observatories should undertake programs targeted at ethnic minorities that bring high school and college students to the observatory to work with individual astronomers.
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equal opportunity for all in the astronomical community, (c) drawing the attention of small colleges and other institutions to the advantages of hiring astronomers, and (d)
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We include as part of public communication the teaching of astronomy courses to nonmajors; at current enrollment rates, at least 2 million potential voters will take astronomy courses during the 1980's. They should remember the astronomy course for conscience majors as a stimulating intellectual experience, not just as the least painful way to satisfy a science requirement.
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The required courses, both in astronomy and other areas, should be carefully designed to provide rigorous training on which students may build for future work in new areas. We recommend that the training of astronomers include the acquisition of skills in such specialized areas as electronics, electro-optical devices, mechanical systems, computer software, and systems engineering; these skills are not only relevant to the development of astronomical instrumentation but also make astronomy graduates more attractive to industry.
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, American Meteor Society, Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers, International Occultation Timing Association, and Problicom] have a collective membership of 2260 (Mercury, May-June 1980, p.
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The monitoring of variable stars by amateur astronomers active in the AAVSO provides important supplemental data for the work of many professional astronomers. With the coming shortages in academic positions more astronomers will be employed outside astronomy.
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are circulated worldwide, and there are usually numbers of foreign proposals submitted, with some eventually selected for flight (we are not considering here cooperative NASA-foreign programs of a joint-project nature, such as the International Sun Earth Explorer, Hellos, the International Ultraviolet Explorer, and the Infrared Astronomy Satellite Explorer)
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, however, recognizes the cost of conducting space research and looks to increasing financial contributions by foreign countries. Simply charging each participating country a proportion of all costs is one possible way to increase financial contributions, but the problem of determining a fair share of the costs and of maintaining U.S.
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In particular, the study invalidated the "old-boy hypothesis," in which eminent scientists were presumed to give high ratings to proposals from their eminent colleagues and unfairly low ratings to proposals from less eminent ones. In fact, the proposals of scientists from highly ranked departments received higher ratings from reviewers in low-ranked departments than from review
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We support any measures that can be taken to streamline these procedures but realize that increased requirements of accountability are circumstances beyond the direct control of the astronomical community (Staats, 1979)
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The welfare of the opportunities for individual funding agency for a short period of the Intergovernmental Personthe entire community depends critically on the abilities of agency astronomers in Washington.
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