The Pedagogical Colloquium: Taking Teaching Seriously in the Faculty Hiring Process

The Pedagogical Colloquium: Taking Teaching Seriously in the Faculty Hiring Process

Improving the recruitment and hiring process for women faculty.

A T u c w m s ( C r t i r a f “ n the past decade, the number of women medical students as equaled or exceeded the number of men. Despite this rowth, women continue to be persistently and substanially underrepresented in academic medicine. Although omen are more likely than men to pursue an academic areer, they are still underrepresented, constituting fewer han one-third of all physicians holdi...

Taking the Pirahã Seriously

We propose first order formal theories Γn, with n ≥ 1, and Γ = ⋃ n≥1 Γn, which can be roughly described as follows: each one of these theories axiomatizes a bounded universe, with a greatest element, modelled on Sergeyev’s so-called grossone; each such theory is consistent if predicative arithmetic I∆0 + Ω1 is; inside each such theory one can represent (in a weak, precisely specified, sense) th...

Taking tissue seriously means taking communities seriously

BACKGROUND Health research is increasingly being conducted on a global scale, particularly in the developing world to address leading causes of morbidity and mortality. While research interest has increased, building scientific capacity in the developing world has not kept pace. This often leads to the export of human tissue (defined broadly) from the developing to the developed world for analy...

Taking the People Seriously ( I )

The subtitle of Professor Goldstein's timely and important book is "The Supreme Court's Obligation to Maintain the Constitution as Something We the People Can Understand." Essentially, Professor Goldstein contends that the Court must explain its constitutional decisions in a manner that is comprehensible to the public because continuing public consent is the true source of the Court's legitimac...