Posts Tagged research
Returning to the Small Teaching College?
Many of Dartmouth’s disgruntled alumni feel that President Wright’s emphasis on increasing the research and scholarly profile of the faculty to be antithetical to Dartmouth’s mission. That mission in their minds seems to be defined as undergraduate teaching to the exclusion of all other activities.
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Getting Tenure at Dartmouth
In many respects Dartmouth is a very unique institution of higher learning. Across much of the undergraduate college, the place is simultaneously a major research university and a small teaching college. Many of us here think it has the best of both.
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Doing Science
The best faculty member in any discipline at a major university integrates teaching and research into one seamless endeavor. These activities are at one level synergistic: teaching forces the faculty member to think beyond the narrow confines of the current grant or the current experimental result, while research maintains the desire for discovery that pervades the best teaching. However, when considered at a more fundamental level, they are in fact the same endeavor.