Ask them what it takes to be hired and successful. Find out what, in their frank opinion, are the satisfactions and challenges of a career at an institution with a mission similar to their university. Familiarize yourself with the culture and priorities of the institution and department. ...
My first grown-up career was as a locksmith, and our main advice to everyone who was looking to up their home security was “Make your house look less appealing than the neighbors.” This is terrible advice because it means making a target out of the people around you. But the reality ...
If you’ve run out of time to ask students themselves, or if doing that is too uncomfortable for you, you can get some help online. On Pronounce Names, you can find a huge collection of names and their pronunciations. Whatever you do, do something. For some students, you may be the...
But when playing a character (or NPC) of a different gender/ethnic background than yourself, the line between poetic license and offensive stereotyping thins, especially if someone of that gender/ethnicity (or someone who is dating one) is sitting right across the table. We can't be perfect,...
If you want to learn more about a specific professor or their subject/research/work, don’t be afraid to politely email them or contact their department. Many professors love to talk about their work and their interests, or would at least be happy to put you in touch with current students...
she does it and politely says “okay.” Now, mind you, I have my arguments with her, especially when I ask for something and she gives me something different. When that happens, I call her all sorts of names, only to come back and tells me she doesn’t understand or can’t do wha...
Jews are nearly unique in that their ethnicity and religion are bound up together. I honestly don’t know if Orthodox Jews like Don Feder consider leftists such as Abe Foxman to be Jewish (other than in the ethnic sense). That said, my real diagreement would be in the description of ...
Owing to its national history, France has long been a so-called “color-blind society”, in the sense that ethnicity is not considered as a legitimate criterion for group description, either in an administrative or academic context, and the gathering of such data has been legally restricted. ...