Fabian Klaber’s post about international professors prompted me to do a bit of reading into US university hiring. I am woefully uneducated about the restrictions on international hiring, being a US citizen, and as a grad student I have little … Continue reading
I think I’m going to refer to Dr. Fowler as my “dealer” from now on. She’s the one who introduced me to the iPad. “Sure!” I thought to myself, “I’ll check out an iPad…I’m curious what all the fuss is … Continue reading
Mike’s post about interdisciplinary versus multidisciplinary made me think a bit (and comment). After commenting, I realized that I wanted to share an example of an interdisciplinary educational approach close to us – JMU’s ISAT program. My sister happens to … Continue reading
I just read Kathy Kerr’s post about the value of the “lecture” and I really agree. Reading her post helped me organize my thoughts a bit on PBL versus didactic lecture formats. I also saw Brandon Peoples’ post “An oppressor” … Continue reading
I think the universe was trying to tell me I needed to post about diversity. In the course of three days, I was sent an article from LinkedIn about women trailing men and self-sabotaging, then, as I was downloading recent … Continue reading