A curious reality of the American academic system is that those who intend to one day teach elementary or secondary school must do coursework in education. Some states even require a master's in education beyond the bachelor's degree in a content area, such as biology or English. Meanwhile, those who hope to land university and college professor positions will most likely never come close to a cl...
When Jessica Lee Mega, M.D., was growing up, annual meetings of the Association of American Medical Colleges took the form of family vacations. Her mother, a child psychiatrist who currently teaches at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, regularly took her young daughter with her to professional conferences. Mega's mother and physician father we...
"Postdocs are starting to realize that they shouldn't be treated as inferior beings," states Sadis Matalon, the associate dean of the University of Alabama, Birmingham's (UAB's) Office of Postdoctoral Education. "The average age of a postdoc is creeping up. Postdocs are not just kids out of school who don't know any better." Many involved in the postdoc world say that recent attention to pay and ...
