The Lander University adjunct professor position is toodling along just swell. I got my copy of "Death, Society, and the Human Experience" (8th ed.) today, for free. I went up to the Psych dept. and looked all over the place for the mailboxes. A history professor showed me where everything was, and when he learned I was an adjunct & he saw my name on a mailbox, he tells me, "They must think you're pretty special then," and he points to a pile of books on a side table where the other adjuncts mail comes to. That made me feel pretty good.
I put in for a full-time psych instructor job at local 2 year college Piedmont Tech last Tuesday. I hadn't heard anything by now, so I contacted someone with Human Resources to check that everything had arrived. This guy called up today and said that they were waiting for my transcripts from Radford before "they could move any further with me." So I faxed them an unofficial copy out of my employee file from Beckman so they could have a copy. I'm going to double back and make sure he got that copy, then maybe get an idea of when I might be interviewed.
I'm excited. I'll keep the joint posted. I have some stuff to post up, too, but I want some of this home/work stress to die out a bit first.
Wednesday, August 03, 2005
The further adventure of Professor Nate
3 comments:
I'm telling you man....milk those free books for all they are worth. Especially if you get the Piedmont gig.
Congrats on the job, Professor Nate. We'll have to trade notes on AIM or on here when classes start. I'm up on 8/24.
When apply for professorial jobs, do they really look at all your transcripts? Dosn't show a certin amount of academic vigour just to get to a Ph.D?
For a full-time tenure track job, transcripts are not important at all. If you are going to be adjuncting somewhere without a Ph.D., such as a two-year college or four-year undergrad only college, transcripts for your M.A. are all a lot of schools have to go on.
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