Links to Physics Department Documents

General

• Travel Reimbursement Rules [pdf'
• Arts & Sciences Strategic Plan Decembee 2002
• Removing Social Security Numbers, brochure, see also Buckeye security site
• Web Accessibility Center helps faculty and TA's. Webpage currently gives access to staff and online tutorials.
• Academic Plan 2000-2005 (19 November 1999 draft)
• Having trouble with email? Read this.
• Using department email lists
• Visa info
  • State Dept Bulletin on College/Univesity Education in the US
  • 2005 changes in fee, timing and requirements
  • Forms and Fees, Oct 2005 update
  • Updated Immigration Forms and Forms Information
    General US Citizenship and Immigrtion Services.
  • Secure Borders Open Doors Advisory Committee SBODAC, Jared Cohen Chair.
• Distribution of OSU science graduate students by race/ethnicity, etc.
• Computer services in Physics/OSU [pdf]

Jobs Online listings

• Nature
• AIP Career Network
• APS
• Other Links (APS compiled)
• AAAS JobNet (AAAS network of science job listings)

Career Advice (please sent me new links, jww)

• AIP Careers & Employment
• Professional Development Resource Guide FIAP, send any comments to Arlene Modeste Knowles

For All

News on Ethics in Academe

Undergraduate Students

• Harvard Guide to College Happiness, much is applicable at OSU
• A Tryout for the Real World, interning
• Pluses and Minuses of Quarter/Year Abroad
• Why isn't OSU on this list?
• AIP and other statistics of jobs and such
    Employment and industry
    Grad school shopper
    Physics Trendes
• Unusual guide to job hunting

Graduate Students

• Candidacy exam [postscript]
• Rules for GRA-GTA apppointments.     Text version
• Graduate School Reimburses Conference Expenses
• Link to Graduate Studies Page
• Link to Chemical Physics Page
• Physics Graduate Student Handbook (pdf)
• 10 Ways to Keep Graduate Students From Quitting
• PhDs Org You can individualize its display to your needs.
  The site, created and maintained by Darmouth College faculty and students, is funded by grant from Sloan Foundation. Look at its survey.
  Its goals are to help scientists prepare for the changing demands of today's market, to facilitate the hiring of new Ph.D.s, and to provide a voice to early career scientists.
• Talk on computing (15 Oct '99, JWW)
• What not to say at your dissertation defense

Faculty

• Absence from campus policy
• New Travel Policy: there is one since April 2007. I don't believe faculty have received it. You can't do your own travel!
• Nature's guide to mentors
• New policy: salary (PET) transfers Jan 2006
• College Support for Foreign Travel
• Form for annual professional information Feb 2001
• Guidelines, procedures and dossier outline
     Dossier checkllist, OAA April 2003
• Budget Restructuring as of January 2002
• Personnel resources committee
• Faculty Committees: Faculty committees (historical)

Misc

• Use of alcohol at academic evernts
• OSU Tools for healthly living
• 2006 AIP Trends
• US PhDs '95-'04, by fields, and physics subfield.s
• Professional conduct and responsibility of authors.
  New APS guidelines Need for Education
• Many university policies, HR and links to others.
• Enhancing the Postdoctoral Experience for Scientists and Engineers: A Guide for Postdoctoral Scholars, Advisers, Institutions, Funding Organizations, and Disciplinary Societies (2000)
• OSU Faculty & TA Development (frames)
  Reaching on Teaching
  Teaching Handbook
• IP startup guidelines, draft 12/7/00
    some text
• OAA RFP: Recruiting Excellent Faculty
• Regents love OSU
• October 2000 Academic Plan
• Is postdoc reform needed?
• College IT help
• BOR survey of faculty activitya (draft 2/17/00)
• MPS College; annual reports: 99, 00,
• US News Physics Ranking: 2000 1999

Academic Freedom and Tenure

1. AAUP 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom
2. AAUP 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure with 1970 Interpretive Comments
3. CHE April 4, 1997, article by AAUP President Perley "Tenure Remains Vital to Academic Freedom"
4. Diary of pre-tenure professor