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What I Wish I'd Known About Faculty Life

What I Wish I’d Known about Faculty Life: Any Regrets?

September 27, 2011 by Kevin Birth 4 Comments

This is the final post in Kevin Birth’s series, What I Wish I’d Known about Faculty Life. Previously: Departmental Politics, Teaching the Curriculum, The Tenure Track. It was one of those gloomy days when even a cup of coffee had no warming effect. Edward and Gretchen were chatting in one of the college’s cafés. Fitting […]

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What I Wish I’d Known About Faculty Life: The Tenure Track, Etc.

September 20, 2011 by Kevin Birth 2 Comments

Ah springtime—the time of annual reviews of junior faculty. That time when tenured faculty give reassurance that somebody is well on their way to getting tenure. Or, more rarely, that time when the powers-that-be must be brutally honest with an untenured professor.

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What I Wish I’d Known about Faculty Life: Teaching the Curriculum, Etc.

September 13, 2011 by Kevin Birth 2 Comments

Empty lecture hall

This is the second post in Kevin Birth’s series, What I Wish I’d Known about Faculty Life. Previously: Departmental Politics. HERR, mein Herz ist nicht hoffärtig, und meine Augen sind nicht stolz; ich wandle nicht in großen Dingen, die mir zu hoch sind. (Psalm 131, Martin Luther’s translation) I like Luther’s translation—particularly the sound of “ich wandle […]

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What I Wish I’d Known About Faculty Life: Departmental Politics, Etc.

September 6, 2011 by Kevin Birth 4 Comments

Our recent series What I Wish I’d Known About Graduate School has been one of our most popular series to date, and it almost immediately inspired this follow-up series, What I Wish I’d Known About Faculty Life. I am pleased to introduce Dr. Kevin Birth, professor of anthropology at Queens College and one of our […]

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