Our internal competition is restricted to pre-tenure faculty with minimal or
zero external funding.  It is strictly targeted to junior faculty in the
tenure track.

 >We had a similar discussion in the recent past.  Consequently, the
>eligibility statement was changed to read:
>
>"Proposals in any area of research or creative work are welcome from all
>faculty members (visiting, postdoctoral, emeriti, adjunct), postdoctoral
>through professor on contract for 1996-97."
>
>Good luck!
>
>Judy
>
>
>At 05:27 PM 3/21/96 -0500, you wrote:
>>We are in the middle of an intramural competition and a controversy
>>has erupted over who qualifies for the competition.  Two of the
>>applicants have titles of instructor as opposed to assistant or
>>associate professor.  They are essentially post docs with access to
>>lab space.  Some of the faculty here (ie. Asst. & Assoc. Professors)
>>feel that it is wrong to allow them to compete.  My question to the
>>group is how many of you have internal competitions and at what level
>>or title are the applicants allowed to compete.  At issue is not the
>>caliber of the science, since both the instructor-level applicants
>>have submitted very strong projects.
>>
>>We would greatly appreciate hearing some of your ideas for a fair
>>competition.  Thank you.
>>
>>Kevin R.Cummings
>>Director of Research Information and Devel.
>>Office of Research Administration
>>New York Medical College
>>(914) 993-4480  xxxxxx@nymc.edu
>>
>>
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