As the days grow colder and the to do lists grow longer, ESN is sharing a series of time management tips, interspersed with longer reflections on aspects of our relationship to time. Today's quick tip is from graduate student Kevin Orner. Read a previous post by Kevin here, or click here for the rest of the time management series. Like many of the topics we publish on, time management is an area that combines opportunities for practical growth and spiritual formation. Our goal is to encourage readers to steward the … [Read more...] about Time Management Tips: Urgency, importance, and a tip from a professor
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Time Management Tips Series, Post 1: God and Priorities
As the days grow colder and the to do lists grow longer, ESN will be sharing a series of time management tips, interspersed with longer reflections on aspects of our relationship to time. Stay tuned as our writers share quick tips, explore at more length, or in some cases reorient our usual notions of time management. Today, ESN writer Scott Santibanez kicks off the series with an opportunity to zoom out and reflect on what is most important to us before we dive into the everyday details of time management. Like many of … [Read more...] about Time Management Tips Series, Post 1: God and Priorities
On the Tenure Track
I went through a painful process last year. Necessary, but painful. But it was a good thing. At my institution, we undergo a pre-tenure evaluation before we go up for tenure —a practice run, so to speak —and my pre-tenure review provided a valuable opportunity for me to reconsider my priorities as a Christian faculty member. As I listed committees I served on, classes I taught, lectures I attended, students I mentored —accounted for how I used my time —I could no longer deceive myself into thinking that I was devoting … [Read more...] about On the Tenure Track