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Cra Launches Effort to nderstand Opinions About Recent Postdoc Surge
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The Computing Research Association (CRA) has launched a program to engage the computing research community in the state of postdoctoral fellows (PostDocs).
The CRA's recent Taulbee Survey found that the number of new PostDocs rose from 60 in 1998 to 159 in 2009, in contrast to the number of new tenure-track faculty positions, which declined from 224 in 2004 to 151 in 2009 (both figures involve three-year rolling averages). In addition, the number of recent Ph.D.s who found industry jobs immediately after graduate school is about half of the total number of Ph.D. graduates in any given year, which is about 25 percent of what it was in 2004, according to the survey.
In order to determine if the rise in PostDocs will positively or negatively impact the industry, the CRA commissioned a white paper that examined PostDoc statistics related to academic and industry hiring. The white paper is available at http://cra.org/postdocs. The CRA would like to receive feedback about the white paper, which can be posted on its Web site, by March 15th.
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