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Week in Review: Where the Jobs Are Edition

September 3, 2010 by Tom Grosh IV Leave a Comment

What are you reading, watching, thinking about this week? As usual, here's a few which have been on our mind. Let us know your thoughts on any/all of them. If you have items you'd like us to consider for the top five, add them in the comments or send them to Tom or Mike. "Where are the jobs" is a hot topic on campus and has a lot of relationship to politics.   Here's a sampler from Tom: 1.   From Where the Jobs Are (and Aren't) [in Poli-Sci] (Scott Jaschik. Inside Higher Education. 9/3/2010): During the … [Read more...] about Week in Review: Where the Jobs Are Edition

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Week in Review Tagged With: elections, evolutionary psychology, freedom of religion, jobs, marc hauser, Medical students, phd, Political Science, politics, science

Week in Review: No Christianity Please Edition

July 30, 2010 by Tom Grosh IV 5 Comments

What are you reading, watching, thinking about this week? As usual, here's a few which have been on our mind. Let us know your thoughts on any/all of them. If you have items you'd like us to consider for the top five, add them in the comments or send them to Tom or Mike. 1. No Christianity Please, We're Academics: In Inside Higher Ed, Wheaton professor Timothy Larsen calls for universities and faculty to confront bias against Christians in higher education. Though there are some studies to back up his claims, he … [Read more...] about Week in Review: No Christianity Please Edition

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Week in Review Tagged With: Educational Mission, Evangelicalism, freedom of religion, jobs, Junior Professor, kevin kelly, letter writing, Penn State University, productivity, PSU, Senior Professor, Small College, State University of New York, Strategic Plan, SUNY, timothy larsen

Resource for Scientists Seeking Alternative Careers

December 16, 2009 by Tom Grosh IV 1 Comment

Are you a life sciences student or professional that loves the science, but doesn't want to follow a traditional career? If so, this is the place for you. This site will cover alternative science career options for those obtaining or that already acquired a science degree, but first let me describe a bit about why this site is being started. ... -- Kristy Houck, About, Alternative Careers Resource:   Best Career Resource for Scientists Looking for Alternative Careers, December 16, 2009. Yesterday I had the opportunity … [Read more...] about Resource for Scientists Seeking Alternative Careers

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Finding Work Tagged With: alternative science career, jobs, science

Shaping the Next Generation of Higher Education

December 9, 2009 by Tom Grosh IV 2 Comments

Two recent articles on the profession of education worth consideration: In Search of Education Leaders, by Bob Herbert, NY Times Op-Ed, December 4, 2009 The Ph.D. Problem: On the professionalization of faculty life, doctoral training, and the academy's self-renewal, by Louis Menand, Harvard Magazine, November-December 2009.   HT: Miller. Anyone willing to take a stab at why the educational system is so leaky and how we find/develop educational leaders which serve their department, discipline, campus, education … [Read more...] about Shaping the Next Generation of Higher Education

Filed Under: Academic Vocations, Christ and the Academy, Mentoring, The University Tagged With: academic culture, educational leaders, end of education, humanities, jobs, Mentoring, phd, science, universities, vocation, Women in Science

The Future of Faculty Driven by Technology & Organizational Efficiency?

July 23, 2009 by Tom Grosh IV Leave a Comment

Some final thoughts on The Faculty of the Future:   Leaner, Meaner, More Innovative, Less Secure (Forum, Chronicle of Higher Education, 7/10/2009) from a friend who offers his gifts to Christ by serving as a business professor.   Do any readers have comments on technological determinism and/or the striving for organizational efficiency in higher education? There are a few elements of the second commentary (TIMOTHY CARMODY) which make sense - but it reads to much like standard technological determinism predictions of … [Read more...] about The Future of Faculty Driven by Technology & Organizational Efficiency?

Filed Under: Academic Vocations, Christ and the Academy, Life in the Academy, Technology in Higher Ed, The University Tagged With: future faculty, jobs, organizational efficiency, technological determinism, tenure, vocation

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