The Adjunct Project
Like many other PhDs and grad students, I’ve been teaching as an adjunct instructor for some time now. Since 2007 …
Category Archives: Academic life
Another resource for doctoral students
A site that focuses on resources and advice for doctoral students interviewed me about protoscholar and the results are posted …
A new semester, TWO new stats sections
A new semester starts this week, and with it not one but TWO new sections of my Intro Stats course. …
Who knew I was still a not-for-profit snob…..
I’ve been working for one of the big for-profit universities for the last 2 years. On the one hand, I …
The truth about academic administration
I used to say that just because everyone agreed to drive the bus off a cliff did NOT mean doing …
Losing my “sucks at math” street cred
One of the ways I’ve tried to ease the fears of my incoming stats students has been to point out …
Looks good on paper
In the course of my PhD program I took upwards of 18 credits of research methods classes: Introducation to Statistics …
Unintended consequences of going paperless
As has been mentioned by a fellow blogger who is also attempting to go paperless this semester, one of the …
Interesting posts from other blogs…
A couple of other blogs had posts this week that caught my attention and that I wanted to share. Both …
Teaching Technology – an update
About a month ago I posted this article on how I was fed up with all the paper my stats …
ProtoScholar 