Efficient teaching: marking down for grammatical errors
I used to be appalled at the quality of my students’ writing on exams and other in-class assignments.
Now
Applying for faculty positions: the teaching philosophy
Job application season is not ramping up until the end of summer, but I’m bringing this topic up now
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
