Doing Science
Teaching and research are at one level synergistic: teaching forces the faculty member to think beyond the narrow confines of the current grant or the current experimental result, while research...
View ArticleGetting Tenure at Dartmouth
In many respects Dartmouth is a very unique institution of higher learning. Across much of the undergraduate college, the place is simultaneously a major research university and a small teaching...
View ArticleReturning to the Small Teaching College?
Many of Dartmouth’s disgruntled alumni feel that President Wright’s emphasis on increasing the research and scholarly profile of the faculty to be antithetical to Dartmouth’s mission. That mission in...
View ArticleResearch & Teaching Can Be Synergistic
At most major universities in the United States, the advice that junior faculty get from their senior colleagues about the optimal division of effort between research and teaching usually boils down to...
View ArticleA Solution To Grade Inflation
I’ve been a university professor since 1991. Being a university professor is a very weird job, because your performance is frequently measured in ways that don’t necessarily quantify whether you’re...
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