Chairing the Mathematical Sciences Department of the 1990s Proceedings of a Colloquium October 27-28, 1989 Arlington, Virginia (1990) / Chapter Skim
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Hoppensteadt, Michigan State University A PROVOST S PERSPECTIVE Phillip A Griffahs, Duke University
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One can contrast this with other fields in which groups in specialties can garner praise. Further in this connection, we tend to write short, nonspecific letters of recommendation, especially when the letters concern awards and prizes, or promotions not involving tenure.
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Arguments, whether on the university campus or in Washington, to benefit particular individuals are usually harder to win than arguments for research programs. Third, mathematicians usually don't understand that university resources are not fixed and reallocation of existing resources is ongoing whether the total budget is rising or falling.
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Again, comparing mathematics salaries with physics salaries at the same institution is not particularly meaningful. Let me qualify that statement by giving an example of the type of internal salary data we kept We plotted a regression of log salary versus some measure of years of applicable experience for the entire science component of the school.
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Thus, a major source of graduate student support must come from resources obtained by individual faculty members. Indeed, that is why the efforts of the Board on Mathematical Sciences in producing David II are so important to the profession.
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Encourage faculty to reach outside the departmentby taking leadership roles in college and university committees. Develop a task force to work with local and state elementary and secondary education.
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Most of them believe a university cannot be first-rate without an excellent English department in the humanities, an excellent economics department for the social sciences, and in the hard sciences, an excellent combination of mathematics and physics. A second attribute of departments that is important to university administrators is their own quality control.
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The mathematics department at Michigan State has recruited a number of outstanding women mathematicians who find a receptive environment there. The issue of cultivating receptive environments is difficult.
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We have found that allowing interested female faculty members to teach calculus has helped in getting highly qualified women mathematics majors. They see successful role models.
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