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How much does teaching ability count?
So far, it has seemed a lot of people get by on grant money and bullshit. I'm disillusioned by academia and the compromises it makes that everyone seems to accept.
Shouldn't the skill of teaching count for anything? In the translation or outcome?
So far, it has seemed a lot of people get by on grant money and bullshit. I'm disillusioned by academia and the compromises it makes that everyone seems to accept.
Shouldn't the skill of teaching count for anything? In the translation or outcome?
This post was deleted for the following reason: This is a little all-over-the-place without a super clear answerable question. Maybe whittle it down to something a little more workable and give it another shot next week. -- cortex
Response by poster: Typos, typos. Question the frame of mind and the broken m key that asked this question.
I have a problem, a fundamental problem: I'm a preacher. I just don't lie. I fudge. I hyperbolize. But I never quite lie.
If your research is a biased piece of shit, I have a hard time not mentioning it. because I'm easily distracted and bored.
posted by provoliminal at 4:11 PM on March 15, 2012
I have a problem, a fundamental problem: I'm a preacher. I just don't lie. I fudge. I hyperbolize. But I never quite lie.
If your research is a biased piece of shit, I have a hard time not mentioning it. because I'm easily distracted and bored.
posted by provoliminal at 4:11 PM on March 15, 2012
Response by poster: Not really. It seems frighteningly easy to break into. Tenure track, well. if I had a research goal I suppose.
posted by provoliminal at 4:12 PM on March 15, 2012
posted by provoliminal at 4:12 PM on March 15, 2012
Response by poster: What can you tell me? I have grad students waiting to spill about their misadventures on a regular basis.
I love quotidian details of some inner world/
posted by provoliminal at 4:13 PM on March 15, 2012
I love quotidian details of some inner world/
posted by provoliminal at 4:13 PM on March 15, 2012
I think we need more details (stated clearly). A lot of institutions want researchers and frankly do not care all that much about teaching abilities.
posted by Nightman at 4:15 PM on March 15, 2012
posted by Nightman at 4:15 PM on March 15, 2012
Response by poster: I think good teachers should matter more fro an "institute of higher learning". I'm hard on professors. And they are asking for it.
posted by provoliminal at 4:15 PM on March 15, 2012
posted by provoliminal at 4:15 PM on March 15, 2012
Teaching counts more at undergraduate-only, teaching-focused institutions and less at research institutions. Different institutions are different, though.
posted by mr_roboto at 4:16 PM on March 15, 2012
posted by mr_roboto at 4:16 PM on March 15, 2012
Response by poster: Can you note any that do? Focus on teaching over grant money and research?
posted by provoliminal at 4:16 PM on March 15, 2012
posted by provoliminal at 4:16 PM on March 15, 2012
Any undergraduate-only institution. The famous east-coast and midwest liberal art schools. Engineering schools like Olin or Harvey Mudd.
posted by mr_roboto at 4:17 PM on March 15, 2012
posted by mr_roboto at 4:17 PM on March 15, 2012
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