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...They still have to figure out exactly what their fellowship program is going to look like,” says Doug McAdam, director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) in Palo Alto, Calif...
...addition to attempts to attract more junior faculty, for McAdam the time right after a scholar receives tenure is an ideal time to bring them to CASBS...
...isn’t because we are running a summer camp or something,” McAdam says. “What you have to do is create a lot of opportunities for them to get to know each other. They’ll have a conversation on a hike, and then they’ll follow...
...When McAdam became the director of CASBS last year—ten years after he was a fellow at the center—he says he was alarmed to discover that the average age of fellows had climbed to 56. But after intensive efforts to attract younger scholars, the average age next year will...
...McAdam says Stanford “benefits enormously” from the nearby CASBS...