Questions tagged [professorship]
Queries specific to the duties and responsibilities of professors, as distinct from all other academic staff positions. This tag should not be used for queries that could equally apply to researchers or instructors who are not professors.
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Are relationships allowed between students and faculty?
What sorts of restrictions do universities place on romantic or sexual relationships between faculty and graduate students, and what are the underlying issues that motivate these restrictions?
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Why would a professor (say in pure math) want to take PhD students?
Why would a professor doing pure math/ theoretical computer science want to take PhD students?
I understand that in computational and experimental sciences taking students is at least beneficial to ...
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What lessons have you learned over the years as a TENURED FULL Professor that you wish somebody had told you when you started as an Assistant Prof?
As a Tenured Full Professor and given your long experience in Academia, what valuable lessons have you learned over the years that you wish somebody had shared with you earlier when you started as an ...
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Is talking to a professor about personal issues acceptable?
I've been struggling a lot recently with stuff thats been going on, I'm in therapy and receiving help but I'm still having a really hard time. I have a professor who's always asking if I'm doing okay ...
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When should a professor recommend a student drop out of college?
I am a college professor, and sometimes I learn of a student's career goals. I think some should drop out despite having good grades. If they do not learn much (because they are advanced or because ...
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How to contact professors for PhD vacancies?
I know many master's students who get an opportunity to talk to their potential PhD advisors well before applying. In most cases this opportunity is available by the professors with whom they worked ...
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I'm scheduled to graduate next week but my professor has gone MIA due to a death in the family... what can I do?
Next week I'm scheduled to graduate from a major university. One of the required courses that I've taken over the past semester is an independent research study with a single professor.
Throughout ...
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What should be done about a professor who treats foreign students worse than domestic students?
My school and my department has a lot of undergraduate students from China. When I took this instructor's class, he routinely
pressured the foreign students to answer questions about their home ...
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What's the purpose of writing one's academic biography in the third person?
I see some academics – both professors and grad students – write their biography on their university webpages in the third person, and it sounds really weird.
What's the purpose of writing about ...
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What's the point of maintaining a CV after tenure?
Once you have tenure, presumably you're never going to have to search for a job again. However almost all professors have a CV on their website, and fairly recent ones. Why? They already made it.
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What should I do as a TA if the instructor is not teaching properly?
Some background: I’m a TA for a low-level course at a major university on the US east coast. This is my second time TAing this course: the first time, I did it under a professor who has taught this a ...
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Can one excel in graduate school with a demanding family life?
The essential gist of my question relates to what the real, unvarnished realities are of graduate, post-graduate, research, fellowship, and professorship attainment - when you aren't a single person ...
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Why wouldn't a professor allow a student to record audio of his lecture?
I am a master’s student in a public university in the state of New York. I do not consider myself to be disabled in any form but I do find it difficult to concentrate in class. I lose focus too often ...
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How to comfortably interact with famous professors?
I know that they are "just as human as we are", but I feel somewhat uncomfortable to talk nonchalantly with the top-notch math researchers and professors in my department because of their social ...
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OK to ask a professor at my institution with whom I have no previous relationship some questions relating to hobby-project?
I go to community college so our professors aren't busy with lab research. They're still busy people though and I wish to respect that.
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