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Update: offer extended
QUERY: Any word from Clemson (Lecturer) since Zoom interviews ended?
Just a note for anonymous above: Dartmouth has never been ranked by Leiter because it doesn’t have a PhD program,…
In our new "how can we help you?" thread, a reader asks:
Typepad (what this blog is running on) is shutting down on Sept. 30, 2025!!!!! Is the blog continuing? Are old Q/As going to be saved? I hope so!
I found this out just yesterday, and suffice it to say I'm not happy about it. I'm going to look into migrating everything here in Typepad to another blog service, but I don't know if it's possible to migrate in comment sections.
Does anyone have any helpful tips to share? I'd be grateful.
In our new "how can we help you?" thread, a reader asks:
When applying for jobs, does it matter how recent your sample is? I’d be inclined to submit an older sample (circa 2021) due to concerns about length and controversial ideas in my more recent publications. But would this look fishy?
2021 wasn't all that long ago, but I'm not certain "how old is too old" here.
What do readers think?
In our new "how can we help you?" thread, a reader asks:
I'm new to teaching courses that I myself have designed. Is there a way to make lecture prep less tedious and overwhelming? Unfortunately, making the class significantly less lecture-focused is not an option in my situation.
Good question. Alas, my main strategies for making lecture prep less overwhelming are exactly what the OP says they can't do: make classes less lecture-focused. So I'm not sure that I can be of much help here.
Do readers have any helpful lecture-prep tips?
Yup, I was going to write the same thing