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Science Corner: Researching the Researchers

August 5, 2020 by Andy Walsh No Comments

There’s COVID-19 research, and then there’s meta COVID-19 research–that is, research about research in the era of COVID-19.

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Filed Under: Science and Faith Tagged With: navigating career stages, science, science career, science corner, tenure

The Future of ESN

May 28, 2013 by Micheal Hickerson 2 Comments

This is my final post on the Emerging Scholars Blog. Well, my final planned post, anyway. Tom insisted that I leave the door open for guest posts in the future, but I won’t be writing here every Tuesday as I have for the past few years. For my final post, Tom asked me to offer some […]

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy Tagged With: discipleship of the mind, emerging scholars, Faculty, graduate school, integration, knowledge, professor, secularism, tenure

Is a Tenure-Track Job a Futile Dream?

April 23, 2013 by Micheal Hickerson 3 Comments

Probably. Last week, I addressed the question of whether graduate school was a path to certain doom. In the comments of that post, John questioned my use of statistics to show that people with Ph.D.s had relatively good job prospects in this economy. He shared a personal experience with trying to find a tenure-track faculty […]

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Filed Under: Advice for Entering Graduate School, Christ and the Academy Tagged With: Faculty, james k a smith, James Sire, James Sire on ESN, professor, tenure, Tim Keller

Is Graduate School a Path to Certain Doom?

April 16, 2013 by Micheal Hickerson 7 Comments

"A Scholar" by Rembrandt

Every few years, another publication discovers that becoming a tenured professor at a research university is hard work. Most recently, it was Slate, which ran an essay by Rebecca Shuman which, fittingly for an essay about literary study, had two different titles depending on whether you looked at the text on the page or the […]

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Filed Under: Advice for Entering Graduate School, Christ and the Academy Tagged With: Faculty, graduate school, professor, tenure

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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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, What I Wish I'd Known About Faculty Life Tagged With: anthropology, Faculty, professor, retirement, teaching, tenure

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