Re: [Assistant-faculty] Meeting 3/28: Position requests

["Tobin, Roger" <Roger Tobin tufts edu>]

Dean Berger-Sweeney has announced a program for "Cluster Hires" of faculty 
in the area of Environmental Studies. There are a lot of details, but here 
are the basics:

1)  There will be 3 ass't prof. slots, one each in Natural Sciences, 
Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities. Any department in A&S may apply for 
one of the positions.

2)  The positions, tenure lines, etc. will be in the host departments. 
These will not be joint or interdisciplinary appointments.

3)  The new faculty member will teach some courses that will be 
cross-listed with Environmental Studies, and will have some other 
responsibilities to that program.

4)  The plan is to have other Cluster Hires in future years, in different 
areas (i.e. not just Env. Stud.) yet to be determined.

As you think about our position request(s) for next year, you may want to 
keep this program in mind, and consider whether it fits with our 
departmental goals and priorities.

Roger

Roger G. Tobin
Professor and Department Chair
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Tufts University

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From: Tobin, Roger [Roger Tobin tufts edu]
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 9:09 AM
To: faculty cosmos phy tufts edu
Subject: Meeting 3/28: Position requests

Friends,

The agenda for our next faculty meeting, on Monday March 28, will be to 
discuss and, I hope, decide on our priorities for faculty position 
requests.  Please give the matter some thought, talk with your colleagues, 
and come prepared to make the case for your priorities.  Keep in mind that 
simply replacing a past or expected retirement is not in and of itself a 
strong argument; we need to base our requests on programmatic needs or 
opportunities and on the department's long-range goals.

For your reference I am attaching the Department's 2007 Long-Range Plan 
and the report of the External Review committee from that same year.

The subsequent meeting, on April 11, will be devoted to the annual review 
of graduate student progress. Over the next couple of weeks graduate 
students should be meeting with their advisors to review their progress 
and fill out their progress reports.

Roger

Roger G. Tobin
Professor and Department Chair
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Tufts University