Posts Tagged ‘college teaching’
August 20 - Tenure-track Positions Continue to Feel the Pinch
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Teaching Careers
As college teachers, most of us know that the profession is changing, but we aren’t always as up on the details as we should be. According to the National Center for Educational Statistics, between 2001 and 2003 only 54 percent of the faculty hired were appointed to full-time positions, and 35 percent of all full-time
June 1 - Retirement Reflections: Things I Will and Won’t Miss After 33 Years of Teaching
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Teaching Careers
I am just about to retire from Penn State and leave my faculty position teaching undergraduates. I’ll still be working; there’s this newsletter to edit and a world of faculty who still need advice, ideas, and encouragement to do their very best in the classroom. But you don’t end 33 years of college teaching without thinking about those things that will and won’t be missed on campus.
