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ves respect and professional support and perhaps we might begin this process as we should proceed by putting thought and concern into who gets hired i honestly don t know how to operationalize this idea of conducting a transparent and equitable process for hiring adjunct faculty and if i were in the position where i was expected to do this i would be asking with what kind of support because we only are creating the academic calendar a few months in advance of when these job opportunities arise and sometimes because funding is short we can t float sections we want to and sometimes because of demand some get added at the last minute the hr and faculty affairs offices wouldn t have the staff to handle this and are we asking people to sit on more committees what does this look like it sounds like a disaster but what we have right now is a disaster of a different kind that we ve just grown to live with i don t know what to do with it and the lack of professional support for ntt faculty is a downright epidemic and the slapdash hiring procedures is just one small consequence of a much bigger problem final note this post isn t about anything specific going on at my institution or at any other institution it was triggered by one of those emails that i got this morning but those emails are a steady trickle near as we prepare for a new semester it s not about you it s not about me except for the fact that it is about everybody and you and me are part of everybody a short note on nomenclature adjunct can mean a lot of different things what are the differences among contingent faculty adjunct faculty lecturer non tenure track instructor and other terms of art there are a lot of subtle differences and some of these differences vary depending on the institutional context for example in the california state university system all faculty who are not tenure line faculty are lecturers that s the terminology built into the collective bargaining agreement contingent simply means that you re hired at will and don t have a long term contract this gets complex because some non tenure track faculty are more contingent than others depending on policies and guidelines for employment in your university for example in the csu the cba provides for entitlement for ntt faculty who have been on the job for a little while it s not exactly tenure and not a guarantee of future work but it s makes it harder to give those teaching assignments to anybody else adjunct can be interpreted as a label that a person isn t a part of the regular faculty but they re just a temporary add on so this term when applied to folks who are a well engaged with the campus isn t quite appropriate and can be othering date 28 november 2022 author terry mcglynn recommended reads 205 standard a couple more research articles showing how teaching valuations are sexist and the interaction effect with age is quite something if you re involved in teaching evaluations in any way this is important to know about book the guidebook for the engaged university do i really want to be a professor what a frog pandemic tells us about humans it s not too late to bid on items from joan didion s estate book women in field biology continue reading this entry was tagged recommended reads date 08 november 2022 author terry mcglynn on bureaucratic obstacles to field experiences for students standard if your university is like mine then you hear a lot about everybody is working hard to make sure that students have exposure to high impact educational practices we all want to make sure that while students are in college that they have the chance to have meaningful experiences for students in a bunch of science fields it s pretty clear that one of the most transformative and impactful educational practices in our toolkit is bringing students to places in nature for genuine field experiences yes it s possible to become an ecologist or a geologist without going into the field but i think everybody who is getting professional preparation at the undergraduate level in the field sciences should have ample opportunity to go out into the field with their courses and their instructors right but it seems a lot of our universities aren t on the same page they might think it s a good idea but there are also so many bureaucratic obstacles to taking students into the field that we re doing it less than we should be i know so many people who aren t taking students on field trips simply because their institution is making it too hard to make this happen continue reading date 07 november 2022 author terry mcglynn nsf s accountability for the waterman award standard usually we talk about accountability when people are getting it wrong and perhaps on the occasional moment when someone or some organization experiences appropriate negative consequences for their own actions that s only the first step accountability includes taking the steps to right the wrong to move forward doing the right things so i d just like to take a brief moment to say thank you to the national science foundation for showing some accountability and doing the right thing good on ya nsf continue reading date 17 october 2022 author terry mcglynn i know you re busy so i ll make this quick standard this is a sign that i ve been getting it wrong when people start talking to me by saying i know you re busy but then i feel like i have already failed a little bit continue reading date 21 september 2022 author terry mcglynn recommended reads 204 standard black pwi navigating an anti black campus climate meet the professor who hiked 500 miles across the mojave desert why i shrank my lab in half continue reading this entry was tagged recommended reads date 11 september 2022 author terry mcglynn are reus always good for students enrolled in msis it s complicated standard in my department we have a complicated relationship with reu research experience for undergraduate programs we have several well funded active labs on my campus that provide quality mentored research opportunities to biology undergrads so students in our department do who want to have impactful research experience have access to them however it s still valuable for these students to go to an reu program at another university in the summer reu programs especially those in places with a bunch of phd students around may have a strong positive impact on the professional trajectory of students who are doing their undergrad at primarily undergraduate institutions even though academics are known for unnecessarily qualifying general statements with may might or possibly the may that i italicized in the previous sentence was there by design it might have a positive impact or it might actually have a negative impact it depends continue reading this entry was tagged mentoring minority serving institution r1 vs non r1 reu summer research date 07 september 2022 author terry mcglynn the great resignation in academia and the larger mental health crisis standard this is a guest post by rob clark higher rates of faculty departing from academia is a reflection of the ongoing mental health crisis the mental health crisis is not unique to higher education but instead is a systemic issue being felt across all walks of life for example dramatically increased rates of depression are attributed to the covid19 pandemic with about 1 out of 10 people reporting depression symptoms prior to 2019 and up to 1 out of 3 people in 2022 similarly symptoms of anxiety mood disorders are up to 47 in the us in the u s this problem is exacerbated by a fatigued and overwhelmed healthcare system in my own experience it has been exceptionally difficult to get timely mental healthcare it took me 16 months to get an appointment with a prescribing psychiatrist the counseling center i currently use has a waiting list of over 50 patients i currently live in a densely population area with decent healthcare system and the situation is baffling continue reading this entry was tagged alternative careers applying for jobs careers mental health date 31 august 2022 author robertclarkphd recommended reads 203 standard an article in slate about how folks in the humanities aren t doing the off campus volunteer academic service like they used to profiles of faculty who made major career pivots because of the imperative to do more about the climate crisis this really hit home for me two of their four subjects left faculty positions for other roles so this article is 50 quit lit this one is 100 quit lit i left academia to work in a pub because i m working class continue reading this entry was tagged recommended reads date 05 august 2022 author terry mcglynn who uses tenure and how do they use it standard they say that tenure is designed to protect academic freedom that is mostly true but it is also used for for other purposes by faculty and other parties let s do a rundown of how tenure gets used continue reading this entry was tagged academic freedom academic misconduct adjunct faculty careers salary sexual harassment tenure date 01 august 2022 author terry mcglynn systemic racial disparities in nsf funding standard if you re doing basic scientific research in the us here s a new must read this preprint by chen et al dropped on friday entitled decades of systemic racial disparities in funding rates at the national science foundation using over 20 years of data on funding rates they demonstrate that white pis have been getting funded at higher rates than non white pis it feels like the scope of this preprint is similar to what ginther et al documented for nih in 2011 since that time the ginther gap has been central to discussions involving disparities at nih i think the figures speak for themselves so i m going to just share some of them figure 1 shows that white folks have consistently been getting more funding across the years continue reading this entry was tagged equity funding grants nsf racism date 25 july 2022 author terry mcglynn why i don t have trouble finding peer reviewers standard i see this very often in social media and also in conversation with other academic editors it s getting harder and harder to get find people who agree to review manuscripts i have no idea whether this reflects the general experience or if it s borne out by data i of course believe the lived experience of my peers and their accounts make sense given the steady and absurd increase in publication rates with so many people working the manuscript ladder chasing prestige all compounded by the difficulties of the pandemic i imagine that some journals have tracked the invitation acceptance rate and how it s changed over time and perhaps shared this or maybe it s in the bibliometric literature though over the span of a couple minutes my searching powers came up short that said i have to admit that getting reviewers to say yes hasn t been a problem for me in the course of editorial duties even in the depths of this pandemic i usually haven t had to ask more than three to five people in order to land two reviewers each year i ve been handling dozens of manuscripts so i can t credibly pin this on the luck of the draw i don t know why i don t have much trouble finding peer reviewers it presumably is a complex function of the function of manuscripts themselves the society affiliation of the journal how and who i choose to invite the financial model of the journal maybe if people are more likely to say yes to me as a human being and who knows what else if you ask people why they say no i m sure everybody just thinks it s because they re too busy but if you ask people why they say yes then that where it might get interesting the title of this post is off because i clearly don t know why i don t have trouble finding reviewers but it might be informative because i ll tell you what i ve been doing and that might help y all come to your own conclusions about the why i ve just stepped down from all of my editorial roles so i thought now is a good time to step back and reflect on how have i identified potential reviewers and make an attempt at some generalized take lessons from this experience continue reading this entry was tagged editorial work journals pandemic peer review publication date 20 july 2022 author terry mcglynn hidden curriculum for mid career faculty standard over the last few months i ve had some quality time with a bunch of other mid career academics who are also experiencing an inflection point in their careers we ve advanced to a certain level and now we re wondering where do we go next this state of mind has been amplified by the disequilibrium that the pandemic introduced into our jobs and our own lives stay tuned to this space for more on that inflection point perhaps anyhow another thing that floated to the surface was how the hidden curriculum is a problem for us too we usually talk about hidden curriculum as a mechanism of inequity for junior scientists for example undergrads aren t aware of the procedures and cultural norms that of the grad school application process grad students are often unfamiliar with the schmoozing etiquette of the prevailing upper middle class white culture in their discipline some bad news is that the gatekeeping never stops what are some expectations norms resources and pathways that aren t transparently shared with mid career faculty but can be really important here are some examples that have come up continue reading this entry was tagged careers funding mentoring politics research strategies date 18 july 2022 author terry mcglynn recommended reads 202 standard the serviceberry i wouldn t be a scientist without my abortion what s in a bird name 13 ways to keep bugs away from you when you re in your patio or yard i think this is a great listicle that actually relies on knowledge from experts continue reading this entry was tagged recommended reads date 15 july 2022 author terry mcglynn eeb mentor match 2022 is live standard this is just a quick post to let you know that eeb mentor match is now launched and is ready for you to sign up please get the word out to your colleagues students and professional societies this program was designed to help students applying to graduate school find the support they need if you feel like you could use some support in untangling the mysteries and challenges of applying to grad school and for fellowships like the nsf grfp then we are here for you please sign up to be assigned a mentor this program is a grassroots effort that relies on members of our community to provide mentorship if you ve volunteered in previous years you may or may not have been assigned a mentee regardless please do sign up this year so that we can assign students to mentors whose expertise best fits their needs this entry was tagged eeb mentor match mentoring date 03 july 2022 author terry mcglynn effective teaching is not standardized teaching standard there was a comment on a recent post 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