The Professor S Experiment

Author : Karen Kelsky
Publisher : Crown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 45,5 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 : Todd Strasser
Publisher : Ember
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780307979124

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The Wave by Todd Strasser Pdf

This novel dramatizes an incident that took place in a California school in 1969. A teacher creates an experimental movement in his class to help students understand how people could have followed Hitler. The results are astounding. The highly disciplined group, modeled on the principles of the Hilter Youth, has its own salute, chants, and special ways of acting as a unit and sweeps beyond the class and throughout the school, evolving into a society willing to give up freedom for regimentation and blind obedience to their leader. All will learn a lesson that will never be forgotten.

Author : Ontario Agricultural College
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Agricultural education
ISBN : OSU:32435028558369

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Annual Report of the Ontario School of Agriculture and Experimental Farm by Ontario Agricultural College Pdf

Author : Dr. Thom Gilliam Ph.D.
Publisher : Dr. Thom Gilliam, Ph.D
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Confessions of a Professor by Dr. Thom Gilliam Ph.D. Pdf

How has our higher education system become so corrupt and unsustainable while undermining our freedom behind closed doors? Imagine sending your conservative daughter off to your state’s flagship university. After six long years, not the four years you expected, she returns home with a bachelor’s degree in one of the “studies.” She returns home to live because she can’t find employment sufficient to support herself. As heartbreaking as that is, you soon discover she is now a socialist, hates America, and blames men for a patriarchal society she believes ruined her life. She left home full of love but returned filled with hate. Unfortunately, that is not imaginary, and there is no place to turn. Our 4,000 independent universities act as one, and their 1.5 million professors hold homogenous views. This single-mindedness has eliminated free speech and critical thinking by students and faculty alike. Confessions of a Professor provides an insider’s in-depth analysis of our universities’ destructive actions in three broad areas. First, it details their failure to educate students to contribute to society. Second, it exposes academia’s politicized research that helps form government policy. Finally, it documents academia’s actions to undermine us at home and betray us abroad. Beyond those issues, it explains academic research in an easily understood manner. It shows how academic studies align with the new Socialist-Democrat party and drive regulations that control our lives. As bad as their politicized science is and their students’ experiences can be, this book also exposes the extent of racism in the name of diversity. Similarly, it reveals how the war on men has led to 50% more women attending universities and much worse. But even if all these issues were rectified, academia’s traitorous relationship with China is enough alone to condemn the institution. As this book shows, we cannot maintain an advanced society without a higher education system, but ours is failing America and actively undermining us internationally. The author provides over 500 references to support these findings.

Author : Michael S. Lawson
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433684111

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The Professor's Puzzle by Michael S. Lawson Pdf

The Professor’s Puzzle is designed as a handbook for new and aspiring professors to help them transition from the independent research of their doctoral program to classroom teaching. Unfortunately, acquiring a Ph.D. often does not involve real preparation for teaching. One cannot assume that mastering content necessarily means one is qualified to teach it. Drawing from years of experience training young faculty members, professor Michael S. Lawson gathers together the best of educational research and practices, leavened with the yeast of Christian theology, so that readers are equipped to put the “teaching puzzle” together. Ideal for aspiring professors in Christian higher education, as well as all who enter the teaching profession, so they may learn artful teaching and careful administration.

Author : William Eamon
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781426206504

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The Professor of Secrets by William Eamon Pdf

Examines the life and work of sixteenth-century physician Leonardo Fioravanti, and describes the medical community and practices of Renaissance Italy.

Author : Ontario School of Agriculture and Experimental Farm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UCAL:B3034129

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Annual Report of the Ontario School of Agriculture and Experimental Farm for the Year Ending ... by Ontario School of Agriculture and Experimental Farm Pdf

Author : Ohio
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2026 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Ohio
ISBN : OSU:32435072542418

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Annual Reports for ..., Made to the ... General Assembly of the State of Ohio .. by Ohio Pdf

Author : Andrew John Woolford
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780803284418

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This Benevolent Experiment by Andrew John Woolford Pdf

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2017 At the end of the nineteenth century, Indigenous boarding schools were touted as the means for solving the "Indian problem" in both the United States and Canada. With the goal of permanently transforming Indigenous young people into Europeanized colonial subjects, the schools were ultimately a means for eliminating Indigenous communities as obstacles to land acquisition, resource extraction, and nation-building. Andrew Woolford analyzes the formulation of the "Indian problem" as a policy concern in the United States and Canada and examines how the "solution" of Indigenous boarding schools was implemented in Manitoba and New Mexico through complex chains that included multiple government offices with a variety of staffs, Indigenous peoples, and even nonhuman actors such as poverty, disease, and space. The genocidal project inherent in these boarding schools, however, did not unfold in either nation without diversion, resistance, and unintended consequences. Inspired by the signing of the 2007 Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement in Canada, which provided a truth and reconciliation commission and compensation for survivors of residential schools, This Benevolent Experiment offers a multilayered, comparative analysis of Indigenous boarding schools in the United States and Canada. Because of differing historical, political, and structural influences, the two countries have arrived at two very different responses to the harm caused by assimilative education.

Author : John Best
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813585956

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A Professor at the End of Time by John Best Pdf

A Professor at the End of Time tells one professor’s story in the context of the rapid reconfiguration of higher education going on now, and analyzes what the job included before the supernova of technological innovation, the general influx of less-well-prepared students, and the diminution of state and federal support wrought wholesale changes on the profession.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Education
ISBN : CHI:74711290

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The Massachusetts Teacher by Anonim Pdf

Author : Walter Lewin,Warren Goldstein
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781439123546

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For the Love of Physics by Walter Lewin,Warren Goldstein Pdf

“YOU HAVE CHANGED MY LIFE” is a common refrain in the emails Walter Lewin receives daily from fans who have been enthralled by his world-famous video lectures about the wonders of physics. “I walk with a new spring in my step and I look at life through physics-colored eyes,” wrote one such fan. When Lewin’s lectures were made available online, he became an instant YouTube celebrity, and The New York Times declared, “Walter Lewin delivers his lectures with the panache of Julia Child bringing French cooking to amateurs and the zany theatricality of YouTube’s greatest hits.” For more than thirty years as a beloved professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lewin honed his singular craft of making physics not only accessible but truly fun, whether putting his head in the path of a wrecking ball, supercharging himself with three hundred thousand volts of electricity, or demonstrating why the sky is blue and why clouds are white. Now, as Carl Sagan did for astronomy and Brian Green did for cosmology, Lewin takes readers on a marvelous journey in For the Love of Physics, opening our eyes as never before to the amazing beauty and power with which physics can reveal the hidden workings of the world all around us. “I introduce people to their own world,” writes Lewin, “the world they live in and are familiar with but don’t approach like a physicist—yet.” Could it be true that we are shorter standing up than lying down? Why can we snorkel no deeper than about one foot below the surface? Why are the colors of a rainbow always in the same order, and would it be possible to put our hand out and touch one? Whether introducing why the air smells so fresh after a lightning storm, why we briefly lose (and gain) weight when we ride in an elevator, or what the big bang would have sounded like had anyone existed to hear it, Lewin never ceases to surprise and delight with the extraordinary ability of physics to answer even the most elusive questions. Recounting his own exciting discoveries as a pioneer in the field of X-ray astronomy—arriving at MIT right at the start of an astonishing revolution in astronomy—he also brings to life the power of physics to reach into the vastness of space and unveil exotic uncharted territories, from the marvels of a supernova explosion in the Large Magellanic Cloud to the unseeable depths of black holes. “For me,” Lewin writes, “physics is a way of seeing—the spectacular and the mundane, the immense and the minute—as a beautiful, thrillingly interwoven whole.” His wonderfully inventive and vivid ways of introducing us to the revelations of physics impart to us a new appreciation of the remarkable beauty and intricate harmonies of the forces that govern our lives.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1336 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1905
Category : Agricultural experiment stations
ISBN : UOM:39015073296645

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Experiment Station Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sir Norman Lockyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Science
ISBN : UCR:31210005082027

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Nature by Sir Norman Lockyer Pdf

Author : Jason Brennan,Phillip Magness
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780190846299

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Cracks in the Ivory Tower by Jason Brennan,Phillip Magness Pdf

Academics extol high-minded ideals, such as serving the common good and promoting social justice. Universities aim to be centers of learning that find the best and brightest students, treat them fairly, and equip them with the knowledge they need to lead better lives. But as Jason Brennan and Phillip Magness show in Cracks in the Ivory Tower, American universities fall far short of this ideal. At almost every level, they find that students, professors, and administrators are guided by self-interest rather than ethical concerns. College bureaucratic structures also often incentivize and reward bad behavior, while disincentivizing and even punishing good behavior. Most students, faculty, and administrators are out to serve themselves and pass their costs onto others. The problems are deep and pervasive: most academic marketing and advertising is semi-fraudulent. To justify their own pay raises and higher budgets, administrators hire expensive and unnecessary staff. Faculty exploit students for tuition dollars through gen-ed requirements. Students hardly learn anything and cheating is pervasive. At every level, academics disguise their pursuit of self-interest with high-faluting moral language. Marshaling an array of data, Brennan and Magness expose many of the ethical failings of academia and in turn reshape our understanding of how such high power institutions run their business. Everyone knows academia is dysfunctional. Brennan and Magness show the problems are worse than anyone realized. Academics have only themselves to blame.