Sentence examples for hiring professors from inspiring English sources

According to AnnaLee Saxenian's Regional Advantages, which recounts the growth of Silicon Valley, in the 1950s Stanford was recruiting companies to put research units at its industrial park, and those companies in turn were hiring professors as consultants.

"Many schools are hiring professors of practice who focus on preparing students for the 'real world' of engineering," says Goldberg.

Looking to build faculty, and unhappy with professors trained in business and nothing else, he drew from other disciplines, hiring professors of psychology, sociology, mathematics, statistics and organizational behavior.

Its independent charter, a first for a Vietnamese university, allows it to hire professors and design its own courses.

And, because universities mostly wanted to hire professors whose greatest works were still ahead of them, junior professors were often paid more than senior ones.

At age 19 he designed a pocket translator and hired professors to make a prototype.

Universities, hospitals, newspapers and magazines do not hire professors, physicians and writers for $400 a month.

In the past several years, two newly created institutions, Florida Gulf Coast University and the Arizona International Campus of the University of Arizona, have hired professors only on annual or multiyear contracts.

Beyond that, a survey "by local media" found that "at least 38.8 percent of newly hired professors this year had nonguaranteed contracts," writes Yoon Min-sik in the article.

Universities also are faced with the complication that it's in their best fiscal interest to hire professors the lowest possible salary, and unfortunately women often lose ground to men in the negotiating process.

One $262 million program has been tweaked to let universities--who receive block grants based on an assessment of faculty productivity--provide infrastructure for established as well as newly hired professors.