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Inside Higher Ed :: Tenure and the Unspoken Rules
- "Now that I have successfully achieved tenure at an R1, I feel the need to speak about what I have learned in the process. Some of this drive to write is because I want to share important lessons, but I also am compelled by the frustration and fear my junior colleagues share in facing the lack of clarity in expectations for tenure."
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Uncertain Principles: How to Survive the Tenure Process
- Advice from physicist Chad Orzel at ScienceBlogs
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Galactic Interactions : Advice for junior faculty at a research university
- "My advice here is specifically for faculty at a research University, most specifically Vanderbilt. It's primarily for physics and astronomy (indeed, primarily the latter), but will apply to a lesser extent to anybody in the physical sciences. I would hope that the two new hires in astronomy at Vanderbilt will at least read and think about this, even if they decide thereafter that I'm full of it."
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Incoherently Scattered Ponderings: "Tenure doesn't help you if you are dead"
- "A few funny quotes from a presentation on tenure, getting funded, etc"
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nanoscale views: Tenure - some advice
- Advice from Doug Natelson at Nanoscale Views
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Student Assessment of Learning Gains
- This free site is designed for instructors of all disciplines who would like feedback from their students about how the course elements are helping their students to learn. It is offered as a service to the college-level teaching community.
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Field-tested Learning Assessment Guide (FLAG)
- The FLAG offers broadly applicable, self-contained modular classroom assessment techniques and discipline-specific tools for SMET instructors interested in new approaches to evaluating student learning, attitudes and performance. Each has been developed, tested and refined in real colleges and universities classrooms.
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Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning
- POGIL is a classroom and laboratory technique that seeks to simultaneously teach content and key process skills such as the ability to think analytically and work effectively as part of a collaborative team.
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Peer-led Team Learning
- The PLTL Workshop model engages teams of six to eight students in learning sciences, mathematics and other undergraduate disciplines guided by a peer leader. The PLTL Workshop model: provides an active learning experience for students, creates a leadership role for undergraduates, and engages faculty in a creative new dimension of instruction.
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Just in Time Teaching
- Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT for short) is a teaching and learning strategy based on the interaction between web-based study assignments and an active learner classroom. Students respond electronically to carefully constructed web-based assignments which are due shortly before class, and the instructor reads the student submissions "just-in-time" to adjust the classroom lesson to suit the students' needs. Thus, the heart of JiTT is the "feedback loop" formed by the students' outside-of-class preparation that fundamentally affects what happens during the subsequent in-class time together.
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iCampus: Projects: Technology Enabled Active Learning (TEAL)
- Goal: Replace MIT's large freshman Physics lectures with a studio format, in which one can engage students more fully by incorporating active learning methods into the Introductory Physics classroom, enabled by technology.
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SCALE-UP
- Educational research indicates that students should collaborate on interesting tasks and be deeply involved with the material they are studying. We promote active learning in a redesigned classroom of 100 students or more. (Of course, smaller classes can also benefit.) We believe the SCALE-UP Project has the potential to radically change the way large classes are taught at colleges and universities.
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The Reinvention Center
- The Reinvention Center is a national center focusing on undergraduate education at research universities.
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ChemConnections
- These 2-4-week modules start with relevant real-world questions and develop the chemistry needed to answer them. In the process, students model how chemistry is actually done and discover connections between chemistry and other sciences, technology, and society. In order to develop critical thinking skills as well as cover chemical content, modules feature student-centered active and collaborative classroom activities and inquiry-based laboratory and media projects, rather than relying primarily on traditional lectures and verification laboratories. This approach is based on research showing that students learn best when they build on past experience, relate what they are learning to things that are relevant to them, have direct "hands-on" experience, construct their own knowledge in collaboration with other students and faculty, and communicate their results effectively.
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BioQUEST
- BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium: Problem Posing, Problem Solving, and Persuasion in Undergraduate Biology. BioQUEST actively supports educators interested in the reform of undergraduate biology and engages in the collaborative development of curricula.
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BioSciEdNet
- The BEN Portal provides access to education resources from BEN Collaborators and is managed by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Over 6,630 reviewed resources covering 77 biological sciences topics are available. BEN resources can help you engage student interest, shorten lesson preparation time, provide concept updates, and develop curricula that are in line with national standards for content, use of animals and humans, and student safety.
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Postdoc jobs at jobs.phds.org
- Postdoc job listings
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PhinisheD
- PhinisheD is a discussion and support group for students who cannot seem to finish their dissertations or theses
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Street Savvy Science, Chapter 4: Evidence of Productivity: The Cover Letter
- "Many people believe that the cover letter is a throwaway, and that the resume or CV attached is what counts. While it is entirely true that the resume has to be well written and have good content, the cover letter's job is to point to the key selling points, and to make it more specific to that reader. Just like the cover of a magazine."
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World University Rankings by the Times Higher Education Supplement
- The top 20 American research universities according to the 2005 (London) Times Higher Education Supplement
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Army Research Laboratory Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
- The Postdoctoral Fellowship Program with the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (USARL) is designed to significantly increase the involvement of creative and highly trained scientists and engineers from academia and industry in scientific and technical areas of interest and relevance to the Army. Scientists and engineers at the USARL help shape and execute the Army's program for meeting the challenge of developing technologies that will support Army Forces in meeting future operational needs by pursuing scientific research and technological developments in such diverse fields as : applied mathematics, atmospheric characterization, simulation and human modeling, digital/optical signal processing, nanotechnology, material science and technology, multifunctional technology, combustion processes, propulsion and flight physics, communication and networking, and computational and information science.
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SIAM: Career Center - Employment
- The new SIAM Job Board offers job seekers and employers a unique and easy way to connect. Job seekers can set up a personal account to find jobs, manage resums, and set up job alerts. Employers can set up their personal account online to quickly post jobs, search through resums, and manage their recruiting online.
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Current ORNL Openings for Postdocs and Other Postgraduates
- A listing of current openings at United States Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory for postdoctoral and postmaster's researchers.
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What's Up, Postdoc?
- A collection of blogs on postdoctoral life.
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Another Rankings Fiasco at 'U.S. News'
- "How did Portland State and Arlington get their incorrect ranks? Robert J. Morse, director of data research for U.S. News, blamed technology errors by the company hired by the magazine to conduct its surveys for the graduate rankings. 'There was an error in data output,' he said."
