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A Pipeline to the Tenure Track

by RONALD ROACH , April 2, 2009

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“I saw the UC fellowship as a way to get back to California, but also as an opportunity to have the time to develop as an intellectual,” Balance says.

Since starting the fellowship in fall 2007, Balance has accepted an assistant professor position in Asian American studies at the University of California, Irvine, that falls under the hiring incentive program offered through the UC postdoctoral fellowship program.

Dr. Daryl E. Chubin, director of the AAAS’s Center for Advancing Science and Engineering Capacity, says a workshop he helped organize revealed postdocs largely held coveted faculty positions at major research institutions.
Sought out for her expertise on postdoctoral issues, UNC’s Anderson-Thompkins currently serves in a newly created diversity officer position for the NPA. She says that for a lot of people in the social sciences and humanities, “the postdoc has become attractive because it allows them to maintain a holding pattern where they’re still affiliated with a research institution doing research.”

Young scholars see the time spent during a postdoctoral fellowship providing “some benefit in terms of putting together a book proposal or working on a manuscript. So, it ultimately can make them more attractive and competitive for jobs,” according to Anderson-Thompkins.



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