How can any particular grade-giver give out actual, uninflated grades, if this is not the status quo? For example, if a particular professor resists grade inflation, will they just wind up with very few unfortunate students in their class (especially with the rise in popularity of sites that report a professors typical spread of grades such as koofers.com, pickaprof.com [apparently now myedu.com?], and ratemyprofessors.com)? While it seems unfair to inflate grades, it also seems unfair not to inflate grades if the students will have to compete with other students who may not have received uninflated grades. Many students would want higher grades, many institutions would want their student bodies to have higher grades, many companies hire based partially on higher grades, many grad schools admit based partially on higher grades…
So being new to the whole publishing thing, but hopefully entering into it for the long term (as I intend to be a Computer Science professor), I have never thought about authorship. I have two main questions:
- What should an individual be expected to do to be included as an authro of some intellectual property?
- What actually determines who is listed (and in what order, since this seems to communicate information)?
When I googled (yes I actually use it as a verb because it’s the only search i seem to use, not sure how I feel about that…) authorship, to make sure I was using it correctly in describing this issue that I am contemplating, the first result was to the Harvard Med School’s Authorship Guidelines. I plan to read a bunch of such guidelines to think about what people generally expect and what is actually practiced. It seems like it’d be a form of plagiarism to approach authorship in some ways.
This feels very similar to grade inflation. I will probably be writing a paper on grade inflation for my Preparing the Future Professoriate class.
So Since GMail started allowing me to manage me from address (even before their recent SMTP options), I started using it and have been unable to use a thick email client since then. “Good for you,” yeah sure, but there can be some nice integration between thick apps, rather than depending on the browser. Also, right now I open a thick client (OSX Mail.app) every so often so that it will download my mail (so that i’m not screwed if Google blows up, or is temporarily unavailable [like it was for the better part of a day last semester, which is a huge problem for nerdly cloud-inhabiting TGM]).
So, seeing as how like 7 years have passed, I think it’s time I reevaluate thick mail clients. I’ll post my little gripes here as I notice them (if i post each little issue, i’ll have more blog posts and so my blog will look more active (-: i typed this so that the closing/”rparen” would not confuse my smiley, really).
This video is from a Rice University survey that floated around last semester. It’s making me watch my professors closely for how they interact with their respective families. How many hours will I be able to work each week after I have taken the time necessary to be the kind of parent and partner I want to be?
In our Research Methods in Computer Science course last fall, Dr. Quek quoted one of his old professors ([citation needed]) by saying something like, “To become a professor is to stop living in the present, and to live only in the past and the future, constantly writing grant proposals for work that you will do, and then writing papers and reports on what you(r grad students) did.” I am not sure that I want that. It seems like this may indeed be what actually happens in many cases. How can I be an efficient and productive professor and not completely delegate research to my students? It seems like I would just have to limit how many other work things I allow myself to do that would take time away from research…
Breakfast: 1 cup Frosted miniwheat cereal with 1/3 cup skim milk and 1/2 banana
Dinner on 8/18: (Crab) Stuffed Portabella with asparagus and red-potato home fries
Lunch: PB and (halfa) banana sandwich. Chunk light tuna lunch to go (http://bit.ly/4FKaI
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Breakfast: 1 cup Frosted miniwheat cereal with 1/3 cup skim milk and 1/2 banana
Dinner on 8/17: 1/4 of an 8″ Pizza (Ham, Spinach, and Mushroom) and 3 shrimp and Andouille sausage raviolis in a white sauce.