I love listening to music when I grade papers, conduct research, and organize my office. As a result, I was so excited to receive a free offer for a $2 MP3 credit for Amazon.com! For $2, you can download one (or two) songs from the website!
Click here (LINK) and enter FALLMP3S in the "enter your code" box!
Enjoy and take a SMALL break from the tenure process!
This past spring, I was very blessed to receive two wonderful awards from my university! These awards were the Barry B. Thompson Service Award (LINK) and the Texas A&M University System's Teaching Excellence Award for Teaching Excellence (LINK).
I hope these awards will help me in the tenure process because I work very hard in the classroom (and on the weekends). A wealth of people supported me in this tenure track process and when I am finally awarded tenure (if I am awarded tenure), I will dedicate this process to my family, colleagues, current/former students, and friends from across the nation.
Sincerely,
J. Edwards
Millennial Professor - Jennifer T. Edwards, Ed.D.
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Before this week, I did not know that there was a "National Clearinghouse on Academic Worklife". This website is offered by the University of Michigan Center for the Education of Women" and I look forward to actively exploring this website to read each and every article that they have to offer researchers.
Here are a few of their articles focused on tenure:
A few days ago, my husband and I were persisting through our
normal Saturday night activities. These include cooking dinner, grabbing a
laptop, preparing lesson plans for the upcoming week, reading tomorrow's Sunday
School lesson, and watching TV. This night, we were focused on CSPAN. As we
flipped through the channels, we heard a book author on CSPAN mention the
tenure process and we immediately stopped on this program. I love the weekend
programming on CSPAN and I love Book TV, but this program was slightly different.
This program focused on a recent book titled, "The
Faculty Lounge & Other Reasons Why You Won't Get the College Education You
Paid For" by Naomi Shaefer Riley. I wouldlove to read and review this book because it seemed to contain a wealth
of information focused on large research universities and it ignored professors
who teach at smaller public and private colleges and institutions. Typically,
we do not make over $50,000 and we teach more than four courses a semester. We
volunteer to advise student organizations and to involve our students in extra
curricular activities. For her next book, she should focus on mid-sized
institutions and community colleges to give the public a holistic perspective
of the faculty experience.
Enough of my commentary, here's the video:
What do you think of the video? I plan to order the book through our library's interlibrary loan program.
Sincerely,
J. Edwards
Millennial Professor - Jennifer T. Edwards, Ed.D.
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