Life as an Academic Running a Different Race
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Life as an Academic Running a Different Race Richard Hoshino Keynote Presentation CUMC Kingston July 2005
Warm-Up Question See if you can determine the next two letters of this sequence. U, D, T, Q, C, S, S, H, ?
Year 2020 Question Take five minutes and think about the question on your handout. Write your response on the handout.
The Academic Path Masters Degree (2 years) n Ph. D. Degree (4 years) n Post-Doctoral Fellowship (4 years) n Assistant Professorship (5 years) n Tenure (Associate Professorship and Full Professorship) n
North American Values The average Canadian watches 22 hours of TV a week. n On average, working couples talk with one another only 12 minutes a day. n 1 in every 8 undergraduate students plays online poker for money. n Only 29% of young adults volunteer. n
Publish or Perish A commonly accepted value among young academics that the only way to succeed is to publish, publish! n Often as a consequence, teaching gets neglected and administration/outreach gets ignored. n
A Different Race Making a commitment NOT to conform to the “Publish or Perish” game. n Striving for a healthy balance between Research, Teaching, Administration, and Outreach. n Let me share with you some specific strategies to help you flourish in each of these four areas. n
Research Working on Puzzles and Contest Problems (Sudoku, Cryptic Crosswords, Putnam Contests) n Creating Problems for Math Contests (Euclid, Canadian Math Olympiad, CRUX, High School Math League) n
Teaching Attend workshops organized by your university’s Office of Instructional Development (or equivalent). n Form a “Math Education Study Group” for faculty members, graduate students, and honours students to get together and discuss teaching issues. n
Administration/Service High School Math League (Saturday morning competition for teams of four students) n Math Circles Outreach Program (high school students coming to your university for an evening of free pizza and fun mathematics) n
A Math League Problem Determine the number of rectangles (of all sizes) that appear in the following diagram. Don’t forget that a square counts as a rectangle!
Outreach Math Coaching (e. g. Putnam Training, Math League, Waterloo Seminar, IMO Training Camps) n Volunteerism (e. g. mentoring high school students, tutoring with the JUMP Program in Toronto) n
Thinking of Life as Service n Academics serve their colleagues through research, serve their students through teaching, serve their university through administration, and serve their community through outreach.
Humanities/Math 101 Free university program in the humanities for underprivileged people. n Three prerequisites for enrollment n – Must live below the poverty line – Must be functionally literate – Must have a passionate love for learning
The First Race (1973)
Boston Marathon (2003)
In Closing We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. - Winston Churchill
- Once upon a time there lived a
- Running running running
- Data race vs race condition
- Pelton turbine efficiency
- Dam
- Sentence with beautiful
- Academic life around the world
- Thermosoftening plastics examples
- Why do different atoms produce different colors
- Sound will travel at different speeds in different mediums.
- Library thinkquest org 19537
- Cultural relativism
- Different angle different story
- Acids and bases song lyrics
- Different materials have different
- No two people
- Venn diagram different same different
- Role of life