1 / 17

Life as an Academic Running a Different Race

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.

ronda
Download Presentation

Life as an Academic Running a Different Race

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Life as an AcademicRunning a Different Race Richard Hoshino Keynote Presentation CUMC Kingston July 2005

  2. Warm-Up Question See if you can determine the next two letters of this sequence. U, D, T, Q, C, S, S, H, ?, ?

  3. Year 2020 Question Take five minutes and think about the question on your handout. Write your response on the handout.

  4. The Academic Path • Masters Degree (2 years) • Ph.D. Degree (4 years) • Post-Doctoral Fellowship (4 years) • Assistant Professorship (5 years) • Tenure (Associate Professorship and Full Professorship)

  5. North American Values • The average Canadian watches 22 hours of TV a week. • On average, working couples talk with one another only 12 minutes a day. • 1 in every 8 undergraduate students plays online poker for money. • Only 29% of young adults volunteer.

  6. Publish or Perish • A commonly accepted value among young academics that the only way to succeed is to publish, publish, publish! • Often as a consequence, teaching gets neglected and administration/outreach gets ignored.

  7. A Different Race • Making a commitment NOT to conform to the “Publish or Perish” game. • Striving for a healthy balance between Research, Teaching, Administration, and Outreach. • Let me share with you some specific strategies to help you flourish in each of these four areas.

  8. Research • Working on Puzzles and Contest Problems (Sudoku, Cryptic Crosswords, Putnam Contests) • Creating Problems for Math Contests (Euclid, Canadian Math Olympiad, CRUX, High School Math League)

  9. Teaching • Attend workshops organized by your university’s Office of Instructional Development (or equivalent). • Form a “Math Education Study Group” for faculty members, graduate students, and honours students to get together and discuss teaching issues.

  10. Administration/Service • High School Math League (Saturday morning competition for teams of four students) • Math Circles Outreach Program (high school students coming to your university for an evening of free pizza and fun mathematics)

  11. 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!

  12. Outreach • Math Coaching (e.g. Putnam Training, Math League, Waterloo Seminar, IMO Training Camps) • Volunteerism (e.g. mentoring high school students, tutoring with the JUMP Program in Toronto)

  13. Thinking of Life as Service • Academics serve their colleagues through research, serve their students through teaching, serve their university through administration, and serve their community through outreach.

  14. Humanities/Math 101 • Free university program in the humanities for underprivileged people. • Three prerequisites for enrollment • Must live below the poverty line • Must be functionally literate • Must have a passionate love for learning

  15. The First Race (1973)

  16. Boston Marathon (2003)

  17. In Closing We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. - Winston Churchill

More Related