COVID-19 Forced Fall 2020 Sociology Department Workshop Online
December 31, 2020
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COVID19 forced us to adapt.
Tag: Academic Program Administration
The Challenge of Chairing (Wynn, Besen-Cassino and Weeden)
September 21, 2020
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Jonathan Wynn leads a discussion of the challenges facing sociology chairs.
Vocational Training and Working Class Colleges
March 27, 2020
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We discuss whether working class students are served well by a higher ed curriculum that eschews vocational training.
Financialization of Higher Education (Charlie Eaton)
January 6, 2020
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We discuss the financialization of higher education with Charlie Eaton (UC Merced).
Valuing Public Scholarship (Marybeth Stalp)
December 16, 2019
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How much should the discipline value public scholarship? What to make of public scholarship on new media?
First Round Recommendation Letters (Marybeth Stalp)
December 11, 2019
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Should we end the practice of asking for recommendation letters in the first round of academic hires
Academic Publishing (Eric Schwartz)
October 24, 2019
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Columbia University Press’ Eric Schwartz discusses academic publishing, and how to approach presses.
The German Sociological Divide (Thomas Scheffer)
October 21, 2019
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We discuss recent divisions in German sociology with Stephen Vaisey of Duke University and Thomas Scheffer from Goethe University.
Teaching Classical Theory (Seth Abrutyn)
October 4, 2019
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Seth Aburtyn (University of British Columbia) discusses the role of classical sociology in our graduate curricula.
Gender Bias in Teaching Evaluations
April 17, 2019
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A discussion about recent findings that gender bias in teaching evaluation.
