A Professor S Rage

Author : Michele R. McPhee
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-28
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1429968311

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A Professor's Rage by Michele R. McPhee Pdf

A devoted wife and mother and a Harvard-educated scientist working as a biology professor at the University of Alabama–Huntsville, Amy Bishop seemed to have it all. But when she was denied tenure, her whole world came crashing down...and she reacted in a way no one ever could have imagined. On February 13, 2010, Amy was charged with murder for opening fire in a staff meeting the day before, killing three colleagues and injuring others. How could one woman's fury unleash such destruction? While the campus massacre made national headlines, authorities began a thorough investigation and uncovered another chilling episode in Amy's past. When she was twenty-one, Amy fatally shot her teenage brother, Seth. His death was ruled an accident—and no charges were pressed. But for many involved in the case, Amy's story didn't add up, and law-enforcement officials suspected it was murder...After the Huntsville rampage, the cold case was reopened and Amy would find herself charged with killing her own brother—murder in the first degree. If Amy had been found guilty twenty-four years earlier, three lives might have been saved. A Professor's Rage is the chilling true story of an intelligent woman with a secret past ... a past that would burst out in a shocking killing.

Author : Maggie Berg,Barbara Seeber
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781442645561

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Slow Professor by Maggie Berg,Barbara Seeber Pdf

In The Slow Professor, Maggie Berg and Barbara K. Seeber discuss how adopting the principles of the Slow movement in academic life can counter the erosion of humanistic education.

Author : The Angry Professor
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781105779954

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The Angry Professor's Guide to College Etiquette and Coloring Book by The Angry Professor Pdf

With candor, wit, and footnotes, The Angry Professor gives students the do's and don'ts of college etiquette. Drawing on more than a decade's worth of experience teaching at public and private universities, she outlines the unwritten "rules" of higher education. From what to do about a missed class to how to ask for a letter of recommendation, The Angry Professor explains not only what instructors expect but the reasons behind these expectations. And she does it with humor. If you are a college student or have plans to become one, you need to read The Angry Professor's Guide to College Etiquette and Coloring Book. You will be tested on the material and yes, the final is comprehensive.

Author : Karen Kelsky
Publisher : Crown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780553419436

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The Professor Is In by Karen Kelsky Pdf

The definitive career guide for grad students, adjuncts, post-docs and anyone else eager to get tenure or turn their Ph.D. into their ideal job Each year tens of thousands of students will, after years of hard work and enormous amounts of money, earn their Ph.D. And each year only a small percentage of them will land a job that justifies and rewards their investment. For every comfortably tenured professor or well-paid former academic, there are countless underpaid and overworked adjuncts, and many more who simply give up in frustration. Those who do make it share an important asset that separates them from the pack: they have a plan. They understand exactly what they need to do to set themselves up for success. They know what really moves the needle in academic job searches, how to avoid the all-too-common mistakes that sink so many of their peers, and how to decide when to point their Ph.D. toward other, non-academic options. Karen Kelsky has made it her mission to help readers join the select few who get the most out of their Ph.D. As a former tenured professor and department head who oversaw numerous academic job searches, she knows from experience exactly what gets an academic applicant a job. And as the creator of the popular and widely respected advice site The Professor is In, she has helped countless Ph.D.’s turn themselves into stronger applicants and land their dream careers. Now, for the first time ever, Karen has poured all her best advice into a single handy guide that addresses the most important issues facing any Ph.D., including: -When, where, and what to publish -Writing a foolproof grant application -Cultivating references and crafting the perfect CV -Acing the job talk and campus interview -Avoiding the adjunct trap -Making the leap to nonacademic work, when the time is right The Professor Is In addresses all of these issues, and many more.

Author : Cheron H. Davis,Adriel Hilton,Ricardo Hamrick,F. Erik Brooks
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781838672690

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The Beauty and the Burden of Being a Black Professor by Cheron H. Davis,Adriel Hilton,Ricardo Hamrick,F. Erik Brooks Pdf

By presenting discussions on professional development, and emphasizing the challenges and triumphs experienced by Black professors across disciplines, this book provides advice for junior Black scholars on how to navigate academe and tackle the challenges that Black scholars often face.

Author : Naomi Schaefer Riley
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-16
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781566638883

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The Faculty Lounges by Naomi Schaefer Riley Pdf

College tuition has risen four times faster than the rate of inflation in the past two decades. While faculties like to blame the rising costs on fancy athletic buildings and bloated administrations, professors are hardly getting the short end of the stick. Spending on instruction has increased twenty-two percent over the past decade at private research universities. Parents and taxpayers shouldn't get overheated about faculty salaries: tenure is where they should concentrate their anger. The jobs-for-life entitlement that comes with an ivory tower position is at the heart of so many problems with higher education today. Veteran journalist Naomi Schaefer Riley, an alumna of one of the country's most expensive and best-endowed schools, explores how tenure has promoted a class system in higher education, leaving contingent faculty who are barely making minimum wage and have no time for students to teach large swaths of the undergraduate population. She shows how the institution of tenure forces junior professors to keep their mouths shut for a decade or more if they disagree with senior faculty about anything from politics to research methods. Lastly, she examines how the institution of tenure—with the job security, mediocre salaries, and low levels of accountability it entails—may be attracting the least innovative and interesting members of our society into teaching.

Author : Kristin Henning
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781524748906

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The Rage of Innocence by Kristin Henning Pdf

A brilliant analysis of the foundations of racist policing in America: the day-to-day brutalities, largely hidden from public view, endured by Black youth growing up under constant police surveillance and the persistent threat of physical and psychological abuse "Storytelling that can make people understand the racial inequities of the legal system, and...restore the humanity this system has cruelly stripped from its victims.” —New York Times Book Review Drawing upon twenty-five years of experience rep­resenting Black youth in Washington, D.C.’s juve­nile courts, Kristin Henning confronts America’s irrational, manufactured fears of these young peo­ple and makes a powerfully compelling case that the crisis in racist American policing begins with its relationship to Black children. Henning explains how discriminatory and aggressive policing has socialized a generation of Black teenagers to fear, resent, and resist the police, and she details the long-term consequences of rac­ism that they experience at the hands of the police and their vigilante surrogates. She makes clear that unlike White youth, who are afforded the freedom to test boundaries, experiment with sex and drugs, and figure out who they are and who they want to be, Black youth are seen as a threat to White Amer­ica and are denied healthy adolescent development. She examines the criminalization of Black adoles­cent play and sexuality, and of Black fashion, hair, and music. She limns the effects of police presence in schools and the depth of police-induced trauma in Black adolescents. Especially in the wake of the recent unprece­dented, worldwide outrage at racial injustice and inequality, The Rage of Innocence is an essential book for our moment.

Author : Karen Kelsky
Publisher : Crown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780553419429

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The Professor Is In by Karen Kelsky Pdf

The definitive career guide for grad students, adjuncts, post-docs and anyone else eager to get tenure or turn their Ph.D. into their ideal job Each year tens of thousands of students will, after years of hard work and enormous amounts of money, earn their Ph.D. And each year only a small percentage of them will land a job that justifies and rewards their investment. For every comfortably tenured professor or well-paid former academic, there are countless underpaid and overworked adjuncts, and many more who simply give up in frustration. Those who do make it share an important asset that separates them from the pack: they have a plan. They understand exactly what they need to do to set themselves up for success. They know what really moves the needle in academic job searches, how to avoid the all-too-common mistakes that sink so many of their peers, and how to decide when to point their Ph.D. toward other, non-academic options. Karen Kelsky has made it her mission to help readers join the select few who get the most out of their Ph.D. As a former tenured professor and department head who oversaw numerous academic job searches, she knows from experience exactly what gets an academic applicant a job. And as the creator of the popular and widely respected advice site The Professor is In, she has helped countless Ph.D.’s turn themselves into stronger applicants and land their dream careers. Now, for the first time ever, Karen has poured all her best advice into a single handy guide that addresses the most important issues facing any Ph.D., including: -When, where, and what to publish -Writing a foolproof grant application -Cultivating references and crafting the perfect CV -Acing the job talk and campus interview -Avoiding the adjunct trap -Making the leap to nonacademic work, when the time is right The Professor Is In addresses all of these issues, and many more.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1038 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Art
ISBN : IOWA:31858016626214

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The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art by Anonim Pdf

Author : Carol Anderson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781526631633

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White Rage by Carol Anderson Pdf

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the Civil War to our combustible present, White Rage reframes the continuing conversation about race in America, chronicling the history of the powerful forces opposed to black progress. Since the abolishment of slavery in 1865, every time African Americans have made advances towards full democratic participation, white reaction has fuelled a rollback of any gains. Carefully linking historical flashpoints – from the post-Civil War Black Codes and Jim Crow to expressions of white rage after the election of America's first black president – Carol Anderson renders visible the long lineage of white rage and the different names under which it hides. Compelling and dramatic in the history it relates, White Rage adds a vital new dimension to the conversation about race in America. 'Beautifully written and exhaustively researched' CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE 'An extraordinarily timely and urgent call to confront the legacy of structural racism' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 'Brilliant' ROBIN DIANGELO, AUTHOR OF WHITE FRAGILITY

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Art
ISBN : IOWA:31858016628103

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Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art by Anonim Pdf

Author : Myisha Cherry
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-04
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9780197557341

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The Case for Rage by Myisha Cherry Pdf

"Anger has a bad reputation. Many people think that it is counterproductive, distracting, and destructive. It is a negative emotion, many believe, because it can lead so quickly to violence or an overwhelming fury. And coming from people of color, it takes on connotations that are even more sinister, stirring up stereotypes, making white people fear what an angry other might be capable of doing, when angry, and leading them to turn to hatred or violence in turn, to squelch an anger that might upset the racial status quo"--

Author : Anthony Oliver-Smith,Susanna M. Hoffman,Susanna Hoffman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781315298894

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The Angry Earth by Anthony Oliver-Smith,Susanna M. Hoffman,Susanna Hoffman Pdf

The Angry Earth explores how various cultures in different historical moments have responded to calamity, offering insight into the complex relationship between societies and their environments. From hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes to oil spills and nuclear accidents, disasters triggered by both natural and technological hazards have become increasingly frequent and destructive across the planet. Through case studies drawn from around the globe the contributors to this volume examine issues ranging from the social and political factors that set the stage for disaster, to the cultural processes experienced by survivors, to the long-term impact of disasters on culture and society. In the second edition, each chapter has been updated with a postscript to reflect on recent developments in the field. There is also new material on key present-day topics including epidemics, drought, non-governmental organizations, and displacement and resettlement. This book demonstrates the relevance of studying disaster from an anthropological perspective and is a valuable resource not only for anthropologists but for other fields concerned with education, policy and practice.

Author : Tara Brabazon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317150879

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Digital Dieting by Tara Brabazon Pdf

Imagine if a student spent as much time managing information as celebrities doted on dieting? While eating too much food may be the basis of a moral panic about obesity, excessive information is rarely discussed as a crisis of a similar scale. Obviously, plentiful and high quality food is not a problem if eating is balanced with exercise. But without the skills of media and information literacy, students and citizens wade through low quality online information that fills their day yet does not enable intellectual challenge, imagination and questioning. Digital Dieting: From Information Obesity to Intellectual Fitness probes the social, political and academic difficulties in managing large quantities of low quality information. But this book does not diagnose a crisis. Instead, Digital Dieting provides strategies to develop intellectual fitness that sorts the important from the irrelevant and the remarkable from the banal. In April 2010, and for the first time, Facebook received more independent visitors than Google. Increasingly there is a desire to share rather than search. But what is the impact of such a change on higher education? If students complain that the reading is ’too hard’, then one response is to make it easier. If students complain that assignments are too difficult, then one way to manage this challenge is to make the assignments simpler. Both are passive responses that damage the calibre of education and universities in the long term. Digital Dieting: From Information Obesity to Intellectual Fitness provides active, conscious, careful and applicable strategies to move students and citizens from searching to researching, sharing to thinking, and shopping to reading.

Author : David Horowitz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781621571049

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The Professors by David Horowitz Pdf

A book to challenge the status quo, spark a debate, and get people talking about the issues and questions we face as a country!