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Category Archives: elections
Submitting
Recently, I have been re-reading Michel Houellebecq’s 2015 novel Submission. It’s about a hedonistic literature professor who sleeps with his students, has the diet of a frat boy, and occasionally does “work” researching an obscure (at least, to me) 19th-century … Continue reading
Posted in bias, books, elections, math in the media, teaching evaluations, tenure, Uncategorized, work-life balance
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The Hardest Days to Teach
There are only a few days where I was so upset that I did not want to teach. The first instance was in grad school when my adviser told me he was denied tenure. The most recent was two years … Continue reading
Posted in bias, classroom design, classroom management, community engagement, elections, mentoring
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Saying Something
I said nothing to my students this week about the election outcome. I just had no idea what to say. I was (and am) a strong supporter of Hillary Clinton. I know that many of my students and colleagues were … Continue reading
Posted in bias, elections, teaching
Tagged social justice and mathematics, Talking about election
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