How much space do faculty at teaching campuses take up in journals?
What’s the relative influence of teaching faculty on their fields as a whole? That’s hard to measure.
Here’
Getting and running a big site grant in a small institution: how collaborations fail
Here’s the message of the post in a single sentence:
You need open communication and collaboration to land and
Getting past the comic stereotype of grad student life
I loved grad school. I have serious nostalgia for grad school. If I could be a grad student forever, that
How to run a summer undergraduate research lab
That title should indicate a question rather than a set of instructions.
How do you run a research lab in
What really is “excellence” in teaching ?
I’d like to extend a topic that I brought up recently – about the difficulty in evaluating excellence in teaching.
Don’t waste tenure
Tenure gives us academic freedom.
This doesn’t have to be an empty concept.
Before you get tenure, you need
Ant science: how avoiding modeling led to a cool discovery
Here’s a specific example, from my own work, of how the avoidance of mathematical modeling led to a fundamental
What it takes to get tenure: ambiguity of the teaching criterion
Getting tenure at a teaching university might be harder than getting tenure at a research institution.
If you don’t
Not using the microphone at conference talks
In some humanities fields, when you present a paper, that’s exactly what you do. You stand at a microphone
Teaching efficiently: the muddiest point
I mentioned earlier that I sometimes start classes with short ungraded written quizzes.
Now, I’ll tell you how I
