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标题：External funding: Impact on promotion and retention of STEM assistant professors ;
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作者：Estelle McGroarty ; Tiffeny R. Jimenez ; Jodi Linley 等
期刊名称：Journal of Academic and Business Ethics
印刷版ISSN：1941-336X
电子版ISSN：1941-336X
出版年度：2014
卷号：8
出版社：Academic and Business Research Institute
摘要：The purpose of this exploratory study was to examine the relationship of external funding on the recruitment and retention of assistant professors in STEM disciplines and gender differences in the link between funding and promotion and retention. The external funding patterns of two cohorts of recently hired science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) assistant professors at a major research university were collected and differential outcomes of grant success by gender were measured, as well as gender differences in the correlation between grant activity and reappointment, promotion and tenure (RPT) and retention. The study found significant gender differences in grant submissions, average number and size of awards, and percentage of grants submitted to federal agencies in the first cohort, but not the second. Grant activity during the first cohort's second probationary period was significantly correlated with RPT for both men and women, but there were no correlations between grant activity and RPT during the first probationary period. Also, women submitted proposals as the lead principal investigator less often than men, and the average number of co-investigators was higher on proposals submitted by women, compared to men. This framework will allow the institution in this analysis to regularly monitor early career faculty and measure links between grant activity and RPT. Results can be used to mentor early career faculty and address specific issues that improve faculty success. This framework might be applied to other research-intensive institutions which hold similar expectations regarding external funding of STEM faculty.
关键词：STEM; gender; grant funding; promotion; tenure; retention