April 2, 2009

When Affirmative Action Is A Quota System

Years ago I worked in a clinical psychology division of a university psychology department.  In our division we had ten white males as faculty, with no women or minorities.  I advocated considering women and minority candidates for possible...

December 31, 2006

Teaching All Kinds of Students

It is amazing that in universities almost no one is taught how to teach. It is assumed that because one has a degree in a field one knows how to teach.  Like many assumptions, this one is dubious. My own philosophy of teaching includes comm...