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How did the drama teacher have an ID that said professor professorson?
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I’m rewatching the episode where Jeff makes up a course for credit and I have always been confused how the drama teacher was able to produce a faculty ID that had the correct fake name on it
Edit: after finishing the episode I realized what I always forget which is that the dean thinks he’s in on it the whole time. Thank you for not making fun of my dumb question.
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Harmon on that episode:
"Chris McKenna, it was his baby and his pitch. All his pitch was the beginning of the story. Jeff took a class called “Conspiracy Theories,” and the dean is busting his balls about it, confronting him. Then this guy comes out and says, “I’m Professor Professorson [the professor of the class].” And then he walks away, and Jeff says to Annie, “I’ve never seen that guy in my life.” That was Chris’ pitch. So it’s not just building an episode around a joke. That’s a third of the episode, and there was a magic to it. You’re like, “God, that is the most intriguing story I’ve ever heard in my life.” And now the big question becomes “What do you do next?” It’s not typically how we approach stories. There’s not supposed to be that much detail, and then you don’t know what happens next. I kept going, “Goddammit, we’re doing this wrong. I know we’re doing this wrong, because we’ve built episodes around jokes before. We’re supposed to go in passes. We’re supposed to know the overall story. We go in, and we add detail, and whenever we don’t do that, we have a shitty story. This is a terrible idea. This is like building a bridge while standing on it. You don’t know if it’s going to get to the other side.” And then I thought, “That’s what this episode is. Just improvise it. Keep going with that energy. Don’t add any depth to it; don’t add any more pipe. You’ve already told the whole story in the first act. In this episode, everything is going to be up for dismissal and conjecture.” And the important epiphany for us was that there needs to be no reality beyond that."
Unraveling every scene in the “Professor Professorson” conspiracy
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Fact: In 100% of all fake-gun-related shootings, the victim is always the one with the fake gun
Calling all community college professors. What is your experience like?
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How did you get to where you’re at now? What was your major? What was hard about getting to where you’re at? Did you have to teach middle or high school? What was that like? What is your job like now?
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To teach on community college you need at least a masters degree. To teach grade school you need a teaching credential. Most do not get both. Both require more schooling after the bachelors degree so you choose one path or the other. Teaching credential only allows you to teach K-12, if you get a masters after you will get a pay increase. A masters allows you to teach community college and opens up the job market to industry positions as well (labs, research, programming, etc). I received my degree in applied mathematics and my program had Masters in pure and a masters with an emphasis on teaching as well which was just a mixture of the 2 previous degrees. I worked for a national lab doing a lot of coding and research before I started teaching.
Plagiarism in a Community College - part deux
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I found a second plagiarist. This one even more blatant.
My A&P1 and A&P2 students have to write a paper for 10% of their grade. Not a big deal, a short little 2-5 page double-spaced paper about a disease of their choosing.
They've known about the paper since day one of the semester.
I had a student turn one in that the plagiarism checker (SafeAssign) flagged at 91% plagiarized.
When confronted, he said, "How could it be plagiarized? I wrote it. Its the same one I turned in last semester!"
This is currently my favorite thing a student has ever uttered in my presence.
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Unpopular opinion: the student sort of has a point. College/university expectations are often arbitrary, and follow academic conventions not clearly communicated to the student (depending on the student’s social/economic background, they may have had more or less of an introduction to these disciplinary expectations).
Plagiarism is most often presented as stealing others’ ideas, and so intro students have never encountered expectations of self-plagiarism. Of course, as the prof you have certain expectations of the student, and it’s fine to consider this a case of academic dishonesty. But perhaps- benefit of the doubt here- the student didn’t know that academic settings might have certain provisions for self-plagiarism.
Why do professors do this?
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Is it just my college classes or does it seem like professors are using third-party websites like Cengage to force students in paying for textbooks? These websites have textbook access, but also have homework assignments attached to them so the student must buy the service if they want to pass.
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Professors don’t get anything for requiring them. They’re more for the efficiency of auto grading (and, in some cases, the platforms are better than anything one could create in an LMS). I don’t like them in most cases, but for my adjunct colleagues making mere peanuts to teach hundreds of students, it makes sense.
Are they having a laugh with this lecturer salary? Even for the humanities this is low.
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The University of Maryland, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures seeks a lecturer to teach four Chinese literature and film courses for the 2022-2023 year. Salary is $25,500 and comes with benefits (health, dental, and more). The instructor has the flexibility to select specific topics of his/her interest.
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For four courses? That's like $6250 for a course--that would be fabulously extravagant for adjunct/per coursers in my state. More than twice what my school pays.
How realistic are publications without a phd? (Community college)
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Hi all,
I am a new professor at a community college (6months). I'm in an applied life science field. I do not have a doctoral degree, but did conduct a thesis for my MS degree, and have conducted smaller projects for publication with guidance from my former PI.
Is it reasonable for me to consider pursuing publications in my capacity? I don't have a publication requirement as a tenet of my job description, but I have a few ideas I'd like to explore. I feel like this would make me more desirable if I wanted to complete a doctoral program and/or switch schools.
I have potential collaborators at neighboring universities as well as my alma mater. Right now my workload is a bit wild preparing all of my course materials, but after this semester that should take much less of my time.
Bonus question: I also want to conduct teaching/education research. I have no experience in said form of research, all of my research experience is in my applied science field. Where would I start?
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No journal checks credentials. Grandma could publish in my journals. It just so happens Grandma doesn’t have institutional knowledge of how to write a paper, what to look for, how to frame it, and the infrastructure to create a paper worthy of publication. Instead, those with PhDs are the most likely to check those boxes, thus they publish the most.