Yeah, there was a major gap in my LJ posting around the time of my interview, wasn't there?
I did indeed get the Gonzaga position. I had my campus interview in mid-January on a Thursday evening to Saturday morning marathon, and they offered me the job on the Tuesday after.
It is a tenure-track job, so there's a small but significant research component in addition to the teaching, but since it's an undergraduate school, the grant-writing and administrative component of the whole thing is reduced quite a bit.
It's just nice to think that I stand a good chance of being somewhere for a few years...
Given that it is probably difficult to juggle teaching at one school while preparing to go teach at another school (and moving), I can see why the gap in lj posting exists.
As a more research-oriented person, I must know, have you decided what you are going to do research on? Several postdocs in my lab have been looking at doing teaching fellowships at Swarthmore. One of them was asked to do more, ie assistant professor-level teaching, in the Chemistry department, but she complained that the time allotted for research was too minimal to accomplish much. It must be hard to come up with ideas for a grant application that is doable in the 25% of your time that is left over after teaching. Or, do you get more time at Gonzaga?
I do hope you walked in to your freshman section on the first day, looked the little bastards square in the eye and said, "That is it! I have had it with these muthafuckin' snakes on this muthafuckin' plane!"
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I did indeed get the Gonzaga position. I had my campus interview in mid-January on a Thursday evening to Saturday morning marathon, and they offered me the job on the Tuesday after.
It is a tenure-track job, so there's a small but significant research component in addition to the teaching, but since it's an undergraduate school, the grant-writing and administrative component of the whole thing is reduced quite a bit.
It's just nice to think that I stand a good chance of being somewhere for a few years...
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As a more research-oriented person, I must know, have you decided what you are going to do research on? Several postdocs in my lab have been looking at doing teaching fellowships at Swarthmore. One of them was asked to do more, ie assistant professor-level teaching, in the Chemistry department, but she complained that the time allotted for research was too minimal to accomplish much. It must be hard to come up with ideas for a grant application that is doable in the 25% of your time that is left over after teaching. Or, do you get more time at Gonzaga?
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That would have been cool. :)
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