Letters

In their article "Hiring Criteria in Biology Departments of Academic Institutions" (BioScience 56: 430-436), Fleet and coauthors consider the training that young scientists receive with regard to potential faculty positions across various sectors of academia. The fact that a majority of the necessarily naive scientists-in-training will eventually find themselves working at corporate, nonprofit, or government jobs, often not at the bench, should compel faculty who typically have known nothing but academic life to nevertheless engage in meaningful career development to broaden their junior colleagues' learning experiences.