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 hadRead more…
What I Wish I’d Known About Faculty Life: The Tenure Track, Etc.
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.Read more…
What I Wish I’d Known about Faculty Life: Teaching the Curriculum, Etc.
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 hochRead more…
What I Wish I’d Known About Faculty Life: Departmental Politics, Etc.
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 pleasedRead more…