It is in fact as it should be that at your new school, the sophomore courses you taught two years ago are being taught as senior seminars. Initially my horror was not about this, it was about the fact that the upper division courses I was suddenly teaching were courses I had taken from people … More Good, actually brilliant advice to new faculty #3
“Go anywhere.” Not quite. Z to colleagues: Well, despite a request and funding from upper administration, I may not get my course release. It feels like discrimination, or inappropriate interference: do you think it is about me personally, or about our subfield, or something else, or am I being “overly sensitive”? Colleague 1: Our subfield. … More Bad advice #2, and good advice #1 and #2
The students do not understand why I keep telling them direct translation from English to Spanish will not work, and much of Cajun French is in fact directly translated from English. In current Spanish, I am told that if one listens to corridos, one can actually hear “dar atrás” or “dar p’atrás” meaning “give back.” … More Going la maison
It is the topic of this blog, really: I am trying to de-Reeducate myself which means mentor myself, and my education was good but Reeducation was, essentially, bad mentoring. There is this to talk about in my case but it is not all. And yet I am tired of talking. I think I just had … More More on mentoring
That is one of the pieces of advice which it is only safe to take at an R1 and which I wish R1 faculty would stop dispensing at people who will lose their jobs for taking it. Real advice: Learn never to say no. You were once an adult, you were once allowed to say … More Bad advice #1: “Learn to say no.”
GOOD: The Emeritus Professor, back then. In elementary school when I wrote my first research paper he explained how to plan a project. How much time do you have, weeks to deadline? How long must the paper be, and how short can it be? How much time per day do you have to devote to … More On good and bad mentors
At Dame Eleanor Hull work is being done on two sets of questions. One set is on mentoring: Do you feel you were well-mentored, ill-mentored, or just not mentored? What was the best piece of advice you got from a mentor? Where did one of yours go spectacularly wrong? How are you/would you like to … More Meta-research
As we know, I am in a writing group and committed to do research and ideally, writing daily. I always have a few minutes for this, no matter what, but I want to spend more time than that. I need to, if I am to get anything truly significant accomplished. I also deserve to because … More Public Opinion Poll
We have established that many put teaching far ahead of research and/or life far ahead of work, but others want to be virtuosos and put that first, naturally. I am in this group and I thought ours was the standard attitude. But it is not necessarily. Locally, we struggle for tenure or promotion while others … More Now I understand everything.
As we know, the reason I always felt so at sea with that issue was, I had no idea what our goals or standards were: it was only clear to me that whatever they were, they were unfamiliar and unknown to me. But the reason they were so threatened by our asking what the goals … More Nouveauté du jour
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