A few weeks ago, in The Art of Loving Your Work, Next Wave attempted to answer the question: What makes a good teacher? Such a large question produces so many answers and there really is so little time but--ever interested in helping our readers excel at their myriad academic responsibilities--we hereby begin our seminar on The Art of Teaching. In Session 1, Robin Wright, associate professor of z...
My career as an African-American woman in science has convinced me that mentoring is essential for anyone -- especially any person of color -- who intends to have a successful career in a science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) field. My professional work has taken me down a winding road, away from academia and into corporate America, where I worked as a consultant with job respon...
Universities and colleges increasingly emphasize teaching effectiveness as a factor in promotion and tenure decisions. Because of this changing emphasis, the number and quality of your research publications may no longer be the only measure of whether you climb to the next rung of the academic ladder. Given this fact, how can you document your teaching efforts to colleagues who will be making dec...
