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A lot of this will depend on your department's culture regarding 9-month appointments. There are at least two different aspects of this I can think of: How are 9-month appointments actually viewed? …

Ignoring the tone of the question, addressing a couple points: How are their grades? This is extremely hard to normalize, and assumes that grades, which test being good in class, translate well …

While Bill Barth's description of "professional student" as someone whose sheltering in academia and trying not to graduate is one I have heard, there's also a more formal designation for the term. M …

Instead of remitting it, couldn't the universities just not charge tuition at all, or pay it through a grant rather than through remission? It may not be possible to not charge admission. Thi …

There is no fixed "postdoc salary", so by extension there is no way to inherently adjust for cost of living. The NIH postdoc salary level (which is probably the closest thing to a 'fixed' postdoc sal …

Even in the U.S., it will depend very much on the field you're talking about - it differs widely even for fields that might be considered adjacent to each other. For example, I'm an Epidemiologist. W …

The United States does not recognize the statehood of Palestine (meaning technically that can't be your home country as far as that government is concerned), which makes it somewhat unsurprising that …

You have made some generalizations in your question that are not, necessarily, accurate. Before defense of your proposal, "Ph.D. students" should prepare for a comprehensive examination, but basic …

In my experience (U.S., both East and West coasts) where postdocs are state employees, they will get whatever nominal raise is given across the board to state employees, if such a raise occurs. This i …

Answering as an epidemiologist who knows a fair number of staff scientists, and took a good, hard look at the option myself. When/why do people hire research scientists/staff scientists instead …

I'm not at an undergraduate institution, but I am a theorist in a department that doesn't have many of them. My summation of my startup costs were "People and computers". A couple of things to poten …

We (and indeed you) clearly cannot read the minds of those who have called the meeting, however I'd like to suggest a third option: Someone in the administration is definitely trying to do something, …

Speaking from epidemiology as a field, with some dabbling in clinical and translational research: Commercially funded research should absolutely show up on your CV (it does on mine), and it probably …

I very much doubt we need to be concerned with it at this point. Collections like this have existed for a long time. When I was an undergrad, a minor incident on campus got spun up into Clear Evidenc …

The university I went to for graduate school made no such commitment. They usually guaranteed you, in one form or fashion, your first year or two of funding. But beyond that? The department would defi …