Presentation in the 2006 Rice University NSF Advance Conference entitled “Negotiating the Ideal Faculty Position”. This presentation introduces the reader to the things to consider when negotiating a start-up package. The original presentation authors are Rebekah Drezek (BioE) Behnaam Aazhang (ECE), Barry Dunning (Physics), Jim Kinsey (Chem), Marcia O'Malley (MechE), and Michael Diehl (BioE).
Workshop Authors: Rebekah Drezek, Behnaam Aazhang, Barry Dunning, Jim Kinsey, Marcia O'Malley, and Michael Diehl
Slide 1: our plan for this session
Components of a Start Up Package
Faculty Member Perspective
Chair/Dean Perspective
Q and A - Our Primary Emphasis
Slide 2: negotiating your first position
Slide 3: my favorite general references
The absolute best reference:
HHMI Lab Management: Making the Right Moves
Other good ones:
Tomorrow’s Professor–Preparing for Careers in S/E
A PhD is Not Enough!
The Chicago Guide to Your Academic Career
And you have to read:
Ms. Mentor’s Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia
Slide 4: a day in the life of an assistant prof (2/17/06)
8:30-10:15
Meeting at MDACC on ovary study. Our protocol was approved (Yay!). Did we mention it has to be absolutely pitch dark?
Try to get back to Rice on time for nanobio training review. Hope it is not raining (irritates my Segway…)
Nanobio student No. 1 review (I am co-supervisor on joint project)
10:30-10:45
Nanobio student No. 2 review (I am supervisor on joint project)
10:45-11:00
Meeting with postdoc No. 1 on paper revisions due last week.
11:00-11:30
Meeting with student project team No. 1 for BIOE 572
11:30-12:00
Meeting with grad student No. 1 on fl project.
12:00-12:30
Meeting with grad student No. 2 on job search.
12:30-1:00
Meeting with grad student No. 3 on protocol for R21 (Did I mention we have a R21 due today? By 5:00.)
1:00-1:30
Forage office for food.
1:30-2:00
Meeting with student having HW trouble in BIOE 572
2:00-2:30
Meeting with student project team No. 2 for BIOE 572
2:30-3:00
Meeting with grad student No. 4 on paper submission
3:00-4:00
Weekly teleconference on RO1 No. 1. Curse each other (as always)for choosing mouse model for colon cancer. Learn more than you ever care to know about strategies for colonoscopy in mice.
3:45-4:00
Leave teleconference early to hook up computer for this seminar.
4:00-5:00
Give seminar.
5:00-6:00
Teleconference to discuss competing renewal of RO1 No. 2.
TIME is the new MONEY. Negotiating start up is not about
maximizing dollars but maximizing your opportunity for success.
Slide 5: example: a bare bones offer letter
Letter 1
Bare Bones Offer Letter
WHAT IS HERE
salary
start-up fund
initial summer salary
graduate student/yrs
moving expenses
WHAT IS MISSING
raise to reflect late
start date*
teaching relief
how long do you
have to spend money?
when can you
start spending?
where is space?
how much of it?
renovations?
*if not incorporated into offered salary – will be difficult to figure out if only 1 year delay
Slide 6: example: a more detailed offer letter
Letter 2
More Detailed Offer Letter
Slide 7: faculty member perspective
You are in your most powerful position during the negotiation process (almost impossible to add to once you arrive).
The Chair is your advocate.
Teaching reduction buys you time – this is critical!
Flexibility helps a lot as your needs evolve. Can you change people into equipment? Graduate students into postdocs?
Talk to as many junior and senior faculty as possible to get advice on what is a reasonable package in your subfield before you start.
If there is someone at the institution you trust to ask about what a typical package in your field is like that is even better.
Cannot compare offers w/o understanding a school’s overhead and tuition policies. Need to find out how much a graduate student costs and if it
changes throughout PhD.
Also need to understand school’s overhead return policies and academic year buy-out policies to compare offers.
And if it’s not in writing, it doesn’t exist…
Slide 8: the chair/dean perspective
DO
Realize this is when your chair/dean
are forming their impression of you asa future colleague
Have and communicate a very clearidea of what you need (2-3 pages)
Differentiate between what you
absolutely can’t live without and whatwould be very helpful
Know what equipment could be
shared with others
Be prepared on the initial visit for your
meeting with the Dean
Be prepared during the dept interview
to say which courses you can teach inthe dept. you are interviewing in
Know your space needs (special
power, cooling water, etc.)
DON'T
Repeatedly change your needs (This
was the only comment that everysingle chair/dean independently
mentioned)
Try to raise your offer at one school to
make another match – it becomesobvious and reflects very poorly on
you
Wait until everything else is finalized to
bring up a two body issue (when tobring this up is a possible Q and A topic)
Slide 9: potential q and a topics
Points from Other Panelists
When is the right time to bring up “two-body”
issues?
What is the right approach to handling
multiple negotiation processes?
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