FemaleScienceProfessor

Does your department have a particular philosophy or practice regarding the make-up of search (hiring) committees for tenure-track faculty ...

Imagine that a certain professor is involved in two particular "service" activities that are rather time-consuming. We will call ...

Most of the comments on yesterday's post about whether someone should take on a temporary and challenging administrative position advise...

A question for department chairs, past and present: If you are or have ever been a department chair, what did you get from the Dean or other...

An oft-repeated opinion in academic departments is that the person you don't want as department chair is the one who wants to be depar...

As we progress through our academic careers, there are various documents and other items that need saving and organizing. Back in the Paper ...

This year I somehow I ended up on four (4) committees that review Other Faculty and their research ideas, accomplishments, and/or productivi...

In the old days, when everything was made of paper, certain tasks involved reading file after file after file of documents. Who remembers th...

A visiting colleague and I recently discussed a perennial topic of obsession among some academics: how our departments/universities assign t...

Lately I have adopted a new practice when it comes to being asked to serve on a committee or do some other service task: I only agree to add...

One of the university committees to which I devote some of my time involves discussion and voting via email. Thus far this year, the committ...

August is typically a bit of a feeding frenzy for the forming and filling of committees with participants. I've received numerous reques...

Last year, I wrote about a team of Chemistry professors and students who did a show at my daughter's school. This year it was a group o...

Upon returning from my Winter Vacation, I waded through the usual stack of holiday newsletters, in which I read with great fascination the n...

Until this year, the entertainment at my daughter's elementary school end-of-year ceremony has been a magician or something of that ilk....

Dr. DeMentor (see previous post) and I have an additional point of disagreement. He thinks that my not taking the opportunity to 'change...

This week, a colleague/mentor of mine visited; this is the person who taught me how to teach and has been an important supporter of mine thr...

Compared to all the time I spend reviewing ghastly manuscripts and proposals, participating in stupid committees, and all the rest.. my expe...

Today my assigned task was to listen to 6 of my colleagues each talk for an hour about their ideas regarding possible future directions for ...

Our department has a boring, dry, ugly newsletter that appears every few years. One of the administrative assistants has always been in char...