Salaries

April 15th, 2010 by pcahn

The American Association of University Professors just released its annual survey of faculty salaries. The headline message is that average faculty salaries in the United States increased just 1.2% over the last year, the smallest jump in fifty years of tracking data.

Breaking down the tables, it shows that at Boston University, the average full professor makes $140,600 a year, associate professors $95,500, and assistant professors $82,100. These figures include the schools of law, dentistry, engineering, business, and arts and sciences, though not the medical school.

Still, the same trends in hiring freezes, furloughs, and budget cuts resonate in the academic medical environment.

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Grant Getting

April 14th, 2010 by pcahn

Tomorrow is the deadline for Faculty Development grants in the Department of Medicine. Although each discipline has its own conventions for grant writing, I still go back to a slender pamphlet I first encountered as a graduate student.

The Art of Writing Grant Proposals reveals the unspoken rules that funding committees follow. As they read, they always have three questions in mind:

  • What does the applicant propose to do/learn?
  • Why is it worth doing/learning?
  • How do we know the applicant is qualified?

Keeping these questions in mind will help your application stand out in the pile.

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Vital Vitae

April 13th, 2010 by pcahn

Because so much of professional advancement hinges on the academic biography, for my first post,  I'd like to focus on what makes for a strong CV. This serves a secondary purpose of introducing myself.

Curriculum vitae translates to "course of life" and should provide a snapshot of the accomplishments over your professional life. Like a good biography, it should be told chronologically but without too much emphasis on dates. On my CV, I group my activities by importance so that publications appear on the first page and service last.

CVs can be any length and typically grow as a career advances. Resumes, on the other present a one-page snapshot. They should display more visual flair than CVs, including bullet points, bold text, and action verbs. When I transitioned from traditional faculty to administrator, I converted my CV into a more succinct resume.

For more examples, I recommend the CV Doctor on the career site of the Chronicle of Higher Education.

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