Why do we need a PhD when we can just know a little about everything and call it a day1yr ⋅ Thayer1111 ⋅ r/Professors
I also will accept for payment your grant residuals and library privileges.1yr ⋅ Intellectuallygifted ⋅ r/Professors
Professors: Please give your essay a compelling introductory paragraph. Students:3yr ⋅ heyrunnermama ⋅ r/Professors
Not sure if this prof is part of this group. Regardless, I found it quite amusing.4yr ⋅ GreatDaneMom2018 ⋅ r/Professors
Only realizing my reliance on nonverbal validation after Day 1 of Zoom U3yr ⋅ bobamuel ⋅ r/Professors
A lesson for all University faculty. There are a million puny excuses not to organize. Faculty are experts at making them. But those excuses never outweigh the reward. How long are you going to let know-nothings exploit you?7mo ⋅ big__cheddar ⋅ r/Professors
Congratulations to grad students at Tufts - finalizing a five-year union contact with huge wins ✊3mo ⋅ throwawayyuskween666 ⋅ r/Professors
I would personally love to have the time to indoctrinate students to be radical Marxist intersectional feminists4yr ⋅ jhnna ⋅ r/Professors
1. It’s an asynchronous online class. 2. This kid has done none of the required work so far. 3. We are 4 weeks into the semester.1yr ⋅ SillyTilly17 ⋅ r/Professors
Received an email today from Turnitin about their successes detecting AI in submissions. I hope this continues.1yr ⋅ Gonzo_B ⋅ r/Professors
To be fair, I did ask for creative and thematically-appropriate titles for this paper.3yr ⋅ billfredericks ⋅ r/Professors
I think I found my new late homework policy. Found this while browsing syllabi online.1mo ⋅ Periscope23 ⋅ r/Professors
Chicago public school teacher Dwayne Reed, who's wife is eight months pregnant with their first child, requested to work from home to minimize his COVID risk. His school district said no. So Reed's teaching remotely - from right outside his school.3yr ⋅ Link_Worried ⋅ r/Professors
Anne L’Huillier won the Nobel prize in Physics today in the middle of class, and carried on with her lecture after. Dedication!7mo ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Professors
Let students text you, they said. It'll help with engagement, they said...4yr ⋅ Aahzimandias ⋅ r/Professors
During an extended back-and-forth exchange, helping a student work through a problem2yr ⋅ SoundOfLaughter ⋅ r/Professors
When you get an extension request at 9 pm and plan to say yes the next morning, but by 8 am they've already sent you a 2nd email rudely insisting on an answer.2yr ⋅ 1standlastwaltz ⋅ r/Professors
This meme is set in a fantasy land in which my seniors still attend classes1yr ⋅ hiImProfThrowaway ⋅ r/Professors
I end up jokingly saying this often in lecture based classes, anyone else?3yr ⋅ cutielocks ⋅ r/Professors
Reading the university's guidance and strategic plan for fall semester4yr ⋅ studyofluv ⋅ r/Professors
That's literally a syllabus. Students are wishing for a syllabus...3yr ⋅ CharlamagneTheDog ⋅ r/Professors
Betsy Devos, if water were a simple enough fix for you, we would have sprayed you long ago. Bye bye.3yr ⋅ chrisrayn ⋅ r/Professors
Response from my chair letting him know I tested positive for Covid today and would need to move my appointments scheduled for tomorrow to next week.1yr ⋅ capresesalad1985 ⋅ r/Professors
A little over a week ago, a video game called “The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom” came out. One of my students has been enjoying it very much, according to an email she sent me at 3:00am.1yr ⋅ Benkins1989 ⋅ r/Professors
How common is this type of viewpoint at your workplace? I think it's incredibly reductive, navel gazing, anti-intellectual and does nothing to solve academia's inequalities, but perhaps I'm in the minority?1yr ⋅ gsudes ⋅ r/Professors
Do y'all let students call you by your first name? Do you think it's a gendered issue?1yr ⋅ throwawayyuskween666 ⋅ r/Professors
