A couple more points:
- If the pubs are in the CV, and the CV is uploaded, the pubs don't need to be in item D4.
We put them there because we weren't sure the CV would be uploaded, and because we thought it couldn't hurt.
- For engineering and other disciplines that are covered well by ISI, putting the actual refs in front of NRC is not essential.
The NAMES and ZIPs in D1 and D2 are way more important. This is because NRC will be counting pubs/citations from ISI (using
the names and zips). Items D4 (and D3, books) are critical only for:
- fields not covered well by ISI - like French
- individual publications not covered by ISI -- in odd journals, in foreign-language journals, whatever.
- As far as we're concerned, we'd be ecstatic with these actions on Chris Bowman: Open, consent to participate, upload CV, submit.
December 2006 -- On Faculty Lists. Sorry, no index
12-7: Rules: Where are the rules, the NRC
rules for the faculty lists?
Answer: In
http://www.colorado.edu/pba/nrc/faclistreview.pdf -- see page 9, the section
on "How the evidence has been used to classify an individual in a program as
Core, New, Associated, or not listed, per NRC rules." Use the "bookmarks"
to navigate inside the PDF.
12-7: Alloc's: I am unclear what you
are looking for under the headings:
AllocRaw AssocMod
And where did these numbers come from?
Answer: See section Allocations and
overrides (page 11 or access from the Bookmarks in the PDF) in
http://www.colorado.edu/pba/nrc/faclistreview.pdf.
We're not looking for anything - they are there for you to see what NRC will do.
12-7: Whose committees? No committees? You've
said one of my regular faculty members has been on no committees of students in
our program; I find that hard to believe. Or: Whose committees has this
faculty member been on?
Answer: See section "Evidence we’ve used at UCB"
(page 7) in
http://www.colorado.edu/pba/nrc/faclistreview.pdf for where we got committee
and dissertation supervision lists. To see committees/supervision for an
individual faculty member go to
http://pba.colorado.edu/sasweb/guidegr/NRC/PrivateSite/faclistresources.htm.
12-7: Retired: Some faculty on the LIST
tab have retired. Should I mark them all as "x delete"?
Answer: Probably not. They are on
your list because they are emeritus (see column S) and have been a
chair/advisor/supervisor (column J), or they have some other current affiliation
with the campus and your program (see columns Q, R, and W) and have committee
and/or advisor service (columns J, K). Those who are emeritus should
remain as Core. Those who are not (e.g., currently professor attendant
rank) may be changed from Core to Assoc if you desire.
12-7: Back from administration. We
have a tenured faculty member in NOT_LIST who's been doing administration for
some time, with no committees or dissertation supervision. She's now come
back to the department and will be active in doctoral education. Should
she be listed as Assoc?
Answer: Probably not. Per NRC rules,
faculty who are not new, who have a formal association with the
program/department (e.g., tenured), and who have no committee/supervision
service, cannot be listed at all unless they are currently active in
doctoral program administration such as admissions or curricular committees.
If she is, you may change her, but not to Assoc -- a person cannot be Assoc in
her tenure program/department, must be Core or New or not listed.
12-7: Macs: Can I get everything on a Mac?
Answer: Yes, everything works on a Mac -- the faculty list Excels, the PDF
of background and instructions, the webpages. In IE, Safari, and Firefox.
12-7: No names? I've opened the Excel but I don't see any faculty
names. Where are they?
Answer: They are in separate "worksheets" or what we call TABS inside the
Excel file. Look at the bottom edge of your Excel window and you should
see a bright green box that looks like the tab on a file folder and says LIST,
and a pink one that says NOT_LIST, plus grey All_Rows. If you click on one
of those you'll see faculty names. The difference between LIST, NOT_LIST,
and All_Rows is explained on the Intro tab of the Excel and in the PDF.
12-7: Emails: Who got the email notice?
Answer: Everyone listed as an NRC contact.
This includes faculty and staff named by each program in August/Sept working
with Carol Lynch, plus Engineering and
A&S deans and selected associate deans. All
are listed at on the CU-Boulder NRC program contact list -- access from
http://www.colorado.edu/pba/nrc/resource.htm
Q1 (12/6): I hit submit, or click on the program, and nothing happens.
Answer: Try it with Excel open
before you submit/click. Look for an open Excel, and look for a
dialog box, which is waiting for the login/password for the private site.
Q2 (12/6): Starting soon. Dr. XX starts in January (07).
If there is any advantage to having him listed, is there a
way to justify adding him?
Answer: No. Everyone listed must have been hired
before with a start date of fall 2006 or earlier.
Q3 (12/6): Emeritus, and the NOT_LIST tab: I see
Dr. YY listed, correctly designated as emeritus, but he's the only emeritus
listed. Do you know if there is a reason to have him included and none of
the others?
Answer: Check the NOT_LIST tab as well as the LIST. In either,
identify emeritus as column (S) "OvvEmeritusOnly" = Yes. Some
may be dead (column P). Those on the NOT_LIST will show no committee
chairs or dissertation supervision (column J). Emeritus who DO have
Advisor=Yes are on the LIST tab -- they are only ones who meet the NRC
rules.
Q4 (12/6): People who've left. Drs QQ and RR have both left, and
are not emeritus. I see QQ on the LIST, listed for NRC. I don't
see RR at all.
Answer: Check the NOT_LIST tab for Dr. RR. Dr QQ -- if he has really left and has no involvement in your program,
in the Excel, set him to ShouldBe = x delete, and WhyChange =
left UCB. A few people have left, are on some other program's
still-active list (perhaps improperly), and then sneak through.
Section below
last updated: 16 August 2006
-- on programs and fields
- Start by going to the UCB NRC homepage and reading the welcome note from Susan Avery. Then click on the link at the top
of the page that says "What UCB programs need to do right now."
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- For example -- new PhD tracks are planned in Chemical
Engineering. So, while we don't currently have a track in Chemical
Engineering, we have faculty there. We also have faculty in computer
science, in mathematics, etc. but no PhD track (yet).
- The answer is neither. Think of each field (primary and "other) as an NRC page header, listing programs at schools nationwide. Prospective students and others
are looking at the pages. Your results will be with your listing on the "Neuroscience" page because that's your primary field. Your program will also
be listed -- without results but with a cross reference to the listing on the Neuroscience page -- on the pages for any other fields you pick. So if
you want a student looking for/at chem engineering to see "U of Colorado at Boulder, Neurosciences * [* see Neuroscience page for results ] " on the
chem engineering page of the NRC publications, then select it as an "other field." You don't have to have a formal track, or faculty to do so. There's
possible advantage (exposure) from doing so, and little/no possible downside.
- Also try using http://pba.colorado.edu/sasweb/guidegr/NRC/proglist/index.htm (login and password already sent to programs or available by
emailing IR@colorado.edu) to look for other programs with the string "neur" in the name. Try it. You'll see that right now, only Colo and Illinois
have said they're listing any other fields w their Neuroscience programs. Others might, and not have submitted to us yet.
(8/14/06)
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- For instance, for the Geology Department here at UCB, Earth Science is an
appropriate Field designator for our department, but how do the subfields
come into play here? We have faculty that work in nearly all the subfields
listed under Earth Science - do these get input somewhere in this process?
- Per http://www.colorado.edu/pba/nrc/vocabulary.htm:
"Subfields - Smaller discipline/research areas nested under
fields in the NRC taxonomy. In later stages, faculty members and perhaps
programs will select subfields to describe the type of work done in the
department. Example: Psychology (a program, or faculty in Psychology) might
select Behavioral Neurobiology, Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology,
and/or other subfields." [the key word here is LATER STAGES - not now]
- Also, if Earth Sciences as a field is designated as the "primary" focus of our department, does this mean we don't have to worry about the
"other" categories?
- No. If you want prospective students to see your program while looking at programs in some other field, then you'd want
"other fields." For example, if you want to be listed on the NRC listing of programs doing work in NRC field "Oceanography, Atmospheric Sciences
and Meteorology," you would list this as one of your "other fields." You do not have to have "other fields" - it's simply an opportunity to appear more
than once in the NRC listings. A program's results will be listed under its primary field only. Listings under other fields will direct readers to the
primary field listing for results. (8/14/06)
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- No question is trite! This is incredibly complicated, and we appreciate your attention and diligence!
(8/14/06)
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- Please go to our posting "About primary and other field assignments" for our best and most current explanation. And stay tuned.
NRC seems to still be in flux on how it is going to use "other" fields.
(8/30/06)
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