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Author Archives: kthompson
Let’s Talk About SETs
Let’s discuss student opinion forms, course evaluations, student evaluation of teaching forms, whatever term you use. Article after article year after year highlight how toxic they are. More recently the emphasis has been on how they differ according to instructor … Continue reading
Posted in classroom design, classroom management, classroom response systems, end of semester, exam feedback, extra credit projects, job search, minorities in mathematics, office hours, online homework systems, pre-tenure reviews, public awareness of mathematics, teaching, teaching evaluations, women in math
Tagged bias, course evaluations, tenure
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Offensive Words/Phrases: Who Should Know Better?
Required reading for any academic is Philip Roth’s “The Human Stain.” In the first few pages an older, tenured professor is “forced to retire.” Why? There were two students who never were present when he called roll. Even after roll … Continue reading
Posted in attracting math majors, books, funny things students say, math in the media, minorities in mathematics, outreach, public awareness of mathematics, social aspects of math life, Social situations with students
Tagged academia, hypocrisy, language, political correctness
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Should I Stay or Should I Go?
How do you determine whether or not to attend a particular conference? As a working example to see through to natural generalizations, let’s use the JMM. [Just to choose a conference we’ve all heard of, attend at least once in … Continue reading
Posted in balancing research and teaching, collaborations, conferences, joint math meetings, networking, reimbursements, research, time management, traveling, workshops
Tagged budget, conference travel, Conferences, money, research
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