24
Jun
Recommended reads #208
Socioeconomic roots of academic faculty: “We show that faculty are up to 25 times more likely to have a parent
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21
Jun
When to use the terms PUI, SLAC, MSI, HSI, RPU, etc.?
We’ve got an acronym problem when it comes to classifying colleges and universities. No, it’s not that we
7 min read
22
May
Why it is icky to offer free conference registration for student volunteers
Some academic societies do this thing where they offer free conference registration to a limited number of students, and in
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18
Apr
Why doesn’t NSF redact horrible GRFP reviews that demonstrate overt bias?
The ongoing conversation about inequitable outcomes in the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) is scaffolded
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17
Mar
Recommended reads #207
Higher education’s other diversity crisis (the article is about Oxford, but really, it’s about everywhere)
Insect decline gets
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15
Mar
Undergraduate research: course credit vs. getting paid
Undergraduate labor powers many university laboratories. Many of us faculty in primarily undergraduate institutions simply would not be shipping much
5 min read
10
Feb
Recommended reads #206
The loss of bodily autonomy is making prospective college students rethink where they’ll go off to college.
The great
2 min read
04
Jan
Good, bad, and worst dates for academic conferences
Looking at social media today, I have developed an unambiguous case of FOMO because I’m not at the SICB
4 min read
07
Dec
The SLAC job market and disappearing jobs
Just in case you thought blogging was dead: I read an interesting blog post that I want to share with
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28
Nov
The adjunct hiring process is ridiculous
Once in a while, I get an email that sounds like this:
Hi everybody I know who is driving distance
7 min read