Mahbod seraji biography of alberta
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From the Novel Readings archives, a post that addresses issues still very much on my mind: what we mean by the terms &#;research&#; and &#;scholarship,&#; and what we take to be the duties of professors and the work of the humanities.
A friend and colleague who read and sympathized with my previous post passed along to me an essay by the late C. Q. Drummond, a long-time member of the Department of English at the University of Alberta. The essay is called &#;On the Duties of Professors,&#; and it addresses many of the same issues as my post, particularly the competition for attention, resources, and rewards between research and teaching. As competitions go, all academics know, this is a distinctly unequal one these days: officially, university policies may stress the equal importance of both duties, but inadequacy or irresponsibility in teaching will never hold back someone&#;s tenure or promotion if they have a &#;strong&#; publication record, and while the administrative infras
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A friend and colleague who read and sympathized with my previous post passed along to me an essay by the late C. Q. Drummond, a long-time member of the Department of English at the University of Alberta. The essay is called &#;On the Duties of Professors,&#; and it addresses many of the same issues as my post, particularly the competition for attention, resources, and rewards between research and teaching. As competitions go, all academics know, this is a distinctly unequal one these days: officially, university policies may stress the equal importance of both duties, but inadequacy or irresponsibility in teaching will never hold back someone&#;s tenure or promotion if they have a &#;strong&#; publication record, and while the administrative infrastructure for research is large and powerful, topping out at the Vice Presidential level, if the two factors are really equally important, where, Drummond rightly asks, is the &#;Vice President (Teaching)&#;? (Here at Dalhousie, our office
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List of Iranian Americans
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This is a list of notable Iranian-Americans of all Iranian ethnic backgrounds, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.
To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Iranian-American or must have references showing they are Iranian American.
Academia and science
[edit]- Behnam Ben Amini, Dentist, Associate Clinical Professor at University of California, San Francisco
- Behnaam Aazhang, J.S. Abercrombie Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University
- Kamyar Abdi, archaeologist, former assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology, Dartmouth College
- Alexander Abian, mathematician, Iowa State University
- Mohammad Javad Abdolmohammadi, John E. Rhodes Professor of Acco