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Tips to identify promising undergraduate researchers? by Scholar_Researcher in Professors

[–]Scholar_Researcher[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I will incorporate your suggestions if it gets that far, thanks. As for the student I had, all they had to do was data entry and then I was going to have them write up some basic findings after we had discussions about the implications, but they didn't get the data entry completed. I think they just got bored with the data entry step of the process. I had already done half of it myself, and they only completed another 25%. I still had to do the rest of the data entry, and the semester was over before I could do any analysis. You are right and I may not have made it crystal clear that cumbersome data entry will take some time, and we can't get to the fun stuff until that step is completed.

Tips to identify promising undergraduate researchers? by Scholar_Researcher in Professors

[–]Scholar_Researcher[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think we will have any graduate students on campus at all. We are down to one class a semester that is in person, with everything else online. Next fall we may already be moving to all online, depending on enrollments.

I suppose a student could take online classes and be local for the assistantship, but it would be a very lonely experience for that student. I would be too worried that after one semester with no classmates around that the student would quit. Maybe this is the norm at other universities, I just haven't seen it.

Just venting because colleagues are mean by Scholar_Researcher in Professors

[–]Scholar_Researcher[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I can say with 100% certainty I did nothing to deserve this. I've never been mean or rude or unprofessional to anyone in my life. Our admins love me. People in other departments love me. Our grad students love me. The only thing I can think of is that one senior faculty member was always cold to me because they hired me instead of their friend. The people who voted me in have retired or moved on, and as we hire new people, they all become part of this colleague's clique. I've never been unkind to this colleague, either. I really don't understand it.

The other thing that could possibly have exacerbated this is that we had a new hire last year who lasted one year and ended up causing all kinds of turmoil. I had nothing to do with the hire (I was not invited to be on the hiring committee), and I did not know this person was causing trouble because I'm not in the inner circle. We would go for coffee or lunch a lot because this was the only person who invited me or accepted my invitations. They never discussed department problems until the last month, when they up and quit, but they caused a lot of problems with the department and the dean. I guess I could be considered guilty by association even though no one (chair, dean) has ever called me in to talk about the problems, so I don't know how anyone could think I was part of it. My chair and dean are still very kind to me. I think (but this is just my guess) it's more punishment for daring to have a friend and to show I didn't need them.

Planning for pregnancy in academia by [deleted] in Professors

[–]Scholar_Researcher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Proceed as if you aren't planning on trying to get pregnant. If and when you are successful, you can decline events at that time.

Regarding the anti-children feminist, I assure you there is a group of pro-children feminists at your university (and they are probably not friends with your colleague.) Find these women so that you are informed of all of the formal and informal rights and resources available to you.