In 2022, the Department of Astronomy at Yale University initiated a search for a new faculty member. Current graduate students were given the opportunity to interact with all the shortlisted candidates via an hour-long meeting, as well as the candidate's colloquium and other informal departmental interactions. To reduce subjectivity, the Yale Astronomy Student Council (ASC) designed and implemented a procedure to gather and present data collected from all graduate students during these interactions. These data and an associated write-up were presented at a department faculty meeting at the end of the candidate interview process.
In the Fall of 2022, we wrote up a publicly available document on this survey inspired by the overwhelming positive response to the faculty hiring survey from both students and faculty. This repository contains all the data products that are mentioned in the paper.
One of the primary purposes of writing the above document was so that other departments at Yale and other institutions could adopt a similar approach. All data and analysis pipelines are thus being made available under a GNU GPL v3.0 License.
If you have questions, please feel free to reach out to any of the authors on the paper or current members of the Yale Astronomy Student Council
If you want to refer to this work, here is some BibTex
@article{YaleASC2022,
author = {Asali, Yasmeen and Gerbig, Konstantin and Ghosh, Aritra and Lindsay, Christopher and Shen, Zili and Geha, Marla},
journal = {Bulletin of the AAS},
number = {1},
year = {2022},
month = {dec 2},
note = {https://baas.aas.org/pub/2022i091},
publisher = {},
title = {A {Standardized} {Framework} for {Collecting} {Graduate} {Student} {Input} in {Faculty} {Searches}},
volume = {54},
}