March 26th, 2008, 16 Comments »
I recently learned this fact, and had it confirmed by two other people in the world of post-secondary education. I tried to do some googling, but couldn’t find any reliable-looking data.
Is this a surprise to anybody else? Apparently college profs have it better because they’re unionized. As such, they’re paid more and enjoy better benefits than their peers at university. Plus, college instructors apparently aren’t under the same pressure to publish academic work.
As far as I could figure out, the main advantages of being a university professor are the accompanying prestige, and the, er, more cerebral and academic environment.
Did you know that this was the case? Any profs out there who might care to comment?
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May 27th, 2007, 14 Comments »
I was recently chatting with an English professor from a Canadian university, and happened to ask how many of her students took notes with laptops in class. “Oh, one or two,” she replied.
Really? Isn’t it 2007? I haven’t been in a university classroom for a while, but I kind of assumed that, regardless of faculty, nearly everybody would have laptops open.
Instead, apparently the vast majority of students take notes the way I did, with paper and pencil. Despite there being some kind of fancy, well-used eClassroom site, the students tend to print out materials, punch holes in them and stick them in binders. How very 1992.
Can any professors, students or recent graduates confirm this behaviour? Why do you suppose that laptops haven’t inundated the classroom?
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May 18th, 2007, 2 Comments »
A couple of months ago, Drew invited me to contribute to an eBook of advice for the post-secondary graduate. I wrote a post about doing an internship as a well to get your foot in the door. Several readers chimed in with sage advice as well.
Drew’s finished compiling the eBook, and it contains advice from nearly 50 professionals about how to take those first steps into the working world after graduating. Paging through the book, my contribution looks embarrassingly longwinded. Ah well, that’s nothing new.
I’m pasting the list o’ contributors after the jump, should you wish to visit them.
Read more…
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