Penn Closes the Postdoc Salary Gap# Returnee - 海归
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http://blogs.sciencemag.org/sciencecareers/2012/05/penn-closes-
May 1, 2012
Penn Closes the Postdoc Salary Gap
Like many upstanding universities, the University of Pennsylvania in
Philadelphia has long aspired to take good care of its postdocs. That
includes paying them decently. But, also like other universities, it had a
ways to go to achieve that objective.
Penn's stated goal has been to close the gap between the stipends that
National Institutes of Health (NIH) NRSA postdoctoral fellows receive and
what employee postdocs--most of whom are paid from research grants--receive.
According to a post by Steven J. Fluharty, Penn's Senior Vice Provost for
Research, the university's minimum postdoctoral stipend from 1 July 2012 to
30 June 2013 will be exactly the same as current NRSA stipend levels.
It must be mentioned that these stipends remain absurdly low relative to
postdocs' skills and training. That's evidence of postdocs' commitment to
science, and of a glut of expert labor that threatens to turn science into a
low-wage profession: a dangerous and scary possibility. But it still
represents significant progress.
Yet, it's troubling to note that despite their sacrifices--which most make
in anticipation of an academic career--only a minority of these postdocs
will ever attain a tenure-track faculty post at a college or university.
May 1, 2012
Penn Closes the Postdoc Salary Gap
Like many upstanding universities, the University of Pennsylvania in
Philadelphia has long aspired to take good care of its postdocs. That
includes paying them decently. But, also like other universities, it had a
ways to go to achieve that objective.
Penn's stated goal has been to close the gap between the stipends that
National Institutes of Health (NIH) NRSA postdoctoral fellows receive and
what employee postdocs--most of whom are paid from research grants--receive.
According to a post by Steven J. Fluharty, Penn's Senior Vice Provost for
Research, the university's minimum postdoctoral stipend from 1 July 2012 to
30 June 2013 will be exactly the same as current NRSA stipend levels.
It must be mentioned that these stipends remain absurdly low relative to
postdocs' skills and training. That's evidence of postdocs' commitment to
science, and of a glut of expert labor that threatens to turn science into a
low-wage profession: a dangerous and scary possibility. But it still
represents significant progress.
Yet, it's troubling to note that despite their sacrifices--which most make
in anticipation of an academic career--only a minority of these postdocs
will ever attain a tenure-track faculty post at a college or university.