Hello all,
My late-start class just started for an online yoga class and she has videos that we need to follow linked to her youtube channel. I started looking at her other uploads on the same channel and it's filled with conspiracy theories, anti-vaccine, anti-trans, and basically what you'd expect from this type of person. I would understand if she posted it on another channel but this is the one she uses for her classes and there are obviously trans students that take her class which would be extremely uncomfortable for them if they saw that. I do understand that people are allowed to have their own opinions and can express that freely but she is employed by the college I go to and this type of rhetoric can be extremely harmful as it's anti-science and extremely unprofessional.
What would you guys suggest I do?
I live in California if that matters at all.

I'm a masters student focused on macroeconomics. Recently I have been diving deep into the economic conditions of China and have been reading a lot of articles / research papers on that topic since it's relevant to a paper I'll be writing. Sometimes I get overwhelmed by how many research papers there are and a single paper can be quite elaborate. I don't have the time to spend hours reading these papers thoroughly. Even just skimming through them to check if it will cover a specific topic I'm looking for can take some time.

How do you guys efficiently consume information when doing your research? I'm not a big AI fan (like many others here) but I'll admit that I'll occasionally throw long research papers into chat gpt to ask questions about that paper to make my life easier. Do you guys ever do that or use other tools to make your life easier? Or perhaps I don't need a tool but I just need to get better at skimming these research papers myself?

I’ve been working as assistant professor a while now, and I finally got fulltime position starting in this summer. I will get my own office and wanna upgrade the setup, university gave me modest setup budget, so I’m hoping to invest it wisely. I started small just swapped out old chair for something support me better and it’s already made me feel comfortable till end of the day

Now I’m considering a standing desk, maybe something under $500, just to help me stay more focused. I’m also curious about affordable additions maybe a footrest, better lighting, mini fan, or anything that made difference for you

What’s one thing you added to your workspace that turned out to be more useful than expected?

I work at a community college (remotely) and have reviewed a significant amount of student resumes and cover letters over the past 3 months.

These are, without exception, written TERRIBLY! We have a Career Center, so I am unsure if this is part of the issue or a service not being utilized.

Many cover letters are so similar that it is clear that they used Chat GBT, or the same form cover letter, others have additional spaces or fail to use basic writing conventions and still more fail to qualify in any way, shape, or form.

The level of writing is what I would expect from eighth graders, at best. What is happening? And, how can I help these students before they move on? These are A+ students and campus leaders. Is there something more I am missing, besides the 2020 years?

Thanks :)

I guess I want to vent but also ask if this is expected or normal.

I’ve been working as a faculty in a community college for a year now. Honestly I have the absolute minimum qualification for the job but I am a detail freak and have relatively high initiative, which is probably why they hired me. They also don’t have anyone else - I’m kind of the only full time faculty who’s in charge of this particular program.

They were going to hire one more person who has the same title as me but higher in rank (they’d start off with higher rank because they have a PhD). The person was made an offer, the person accepted the offer, they were supposed to start like next week or something.

Well, the person retracted their acceptance of the offer on Monday. Aside from big administrative issues that this may cause, this means that the four classes the new hire was assigned to are now unmanned. A colleague was also struggling with finding someone that could teach a course she’s no longer able to teach (personal reasons + she’s teaching too many already), so I’m guessing that my department is really fucked (excuse my language) right now. For context, classes start in 3 weeks and there are already a bunch of students enrolled in the unmanned classes.

The dean’s administrative assistant, who’s usually the sweetest person, seems stressed and frustrated. Yesterday I heard the dean discussing with the program chair about finding adjuncts to take the unmanned courses, and they were pretty loud. Everybody seems so stressed out right now. Honestly there’s little that I can do for help, and the stress is rubbing off on me so I don’t really want to go into my office.

I guess it makes sense for a community college job to be a backup for someone with a PhD? It’s odd because I like my job and can see myself coming back after getting a PhD. Granted, I intend to live frugally and alone for the rest of my life so I’m not too affected by the intense workload and low pay.

I’m kind of worried for my boss and my colleagues. They’re probably going to have to let me go in two years because they’d have to sponsor a work visa to let me stay longer and they probably don’t have money for that. I’m okay because I’m interested in doing a PhD, but I wonder what’ll happen after I leave. I’ve been assigned some important tasks despite my inexperience (again, they have no one else) like remaking the entirety of an intro IT course, redesigning a course that isn’t meeting the college system requirements, and being the contact for a newly developing transfer program. I’ll do everything to the best of my ability and leave enough notes for who comes after, but I wonder if my leaving will fuck them over like what’s happening now. I wonder if community colleges are meant to keep being understaffed and riddled with uncertainty/inconsistency.

Hi everyone, how do you decide or choose the journal? Is this decision improve the acceptance?

I don’t know if this feature academically dishonest or not because I have class that allowed it and some that don’t and I have trouble with articulating my words in a academic manner so I use this feature and just edit the words to properly describe what I mean and so far I haven’t been in any trouble but I just want to make sure.

I’m writing an essay for an American lit class and I’m trying to figure out how to address the teacher in the header. They have a masters in English and previously served as the department head, so should I put professor in front of their name or just leave it at their name because of there being a specific definition of professor?

Just saw a job posting at my local cc for "volunteer adjunct faculty" The listing claims candidates will teach courses at the college, serve on committees and offer student advisement. Requires a masters degree from a regionally accredited college. Compensation is listed as "N/A". Is this really something colleges are trying now? Openly trying to get professionally trained labor for free? Anyone else seen this?

I'm inching towards tenure at a masters level university. I'm content with my job here, but I'm a long ways from family, as a lot of us are.

Recently, I came across a job posting at a community college in my hometown that I'd be a good fit for. It's a full time position that appears to have long term potential. The main appeal is that I'd be much closer to family there, but I'd be giving up my current nine month position where I have a pretty good shot at tenure (although "tenure" doesn't mean all that much here) and taking a $15-20k pay cut (COL is about a wash between the two places).

Has anyone else taken a similar career path? Anything that surprised you? Am I out of my mind for even considering this?

Thanks.

So what would be the best way to address/answer my hypothesis in a thesis defence? I was thinking of making a slide about that and also adding about some limitations in my work. What should such a slide be called if the main aim is to answer the hypothesis?

I was a poor student in high school, went to a community college and barely got into a top 50 university and I finished in by bachelors 2003. The internet was just getting started. I have since had a fantastic 20+ year career in business and I thank my community college education for giving me a chance and access to higher education.

The school model back in my day was quite simple and traditional. You went to lecture, read the book, sometimes you would go to office hours or grad student run study groups, you take a few tests.

I am returning to my local community college to take a language class for fun. I used to work in tech and I consider myself very tech savvy, but my head is spinning on how many websites and modules and registrations are needed to take a class. To finish this class you have to work through a cobbled together patchwork of websites to finish your homework, ask questions, and read the book.

To give you an example, here is how I need to finish my homework assignment:

1. Log into school class website
2. Register for the class book which you cannot buy, but only access for 6 months for $63
3. Register for the "learning center" to be able to submit homework. You don't register for the learning center on the learning center website. You must go to a different website to register the learning center. It is 14 steps, and there are numerous errors on the webpage. If this were a business, their website would be considered borderline unusable.
4. Connect this "learning center" website to your school class website.
5. Watch lectures on school website
6. Do homework on book publisher website.
7. Go to learning center website during specific 2 hours slots available per day to submit homework with an available instructor.
8. Email a screenshot to the class professor, of your submitted homework on the learning center. This is how the class professor knows you did the homework. I am assuming because she doesn't have access to who has submitted homework at the learning center?

Has this method been proven to help students learn? Why are we making students jump through so many hoops just to do homework? To me, this is absolutely maddening.

When I was a community college student in 1998 I barely had my head above water and I was an extremely stressed out kid. If I was looking at this crazy system of 4 different and un-connected websites just to take a class I would probably just given up. Community college was my ticket out, and it literally saved my life. I want young adults to have success in CC and have good productive careers in the workforce. I don't see this new learning paradigm as helping more students become successful.

For the 18 year old kid, going to college for the first time, are we as a society doing a disservice to this kid?

Sorry for the long rant, I just really do care about education and I'm heartbroken to see what it has become.

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this but any help would be greatly appreciated.

I was hoping for some help coming up with a thesis for a persuasive research paper that I'm writing. The topic is as follows: "Lawn-watering Bans in a Rainforest: the Lower Mainland of BC case"

To give you some context, every summer the municipal government of British Columbia restricts residential lawn-watering in an effort to conserve the water supply (BC is notorious for experiencing high numbers of out-of-conyrol wildfires each summer). However, the climate of BC is a Coastal rainforest and receives copious amounts of rainfall annually, not to mention the countless lakes and rivers in the province. BC receives rainfall 12 months out of the year and commonly experiences rain that can last days and days and days, an absolute deluge of water.

We are FORBIDDEN to write about: waste, drought, climate change and dry months. As a result, I'm stumped as to what my thesis should be. I suppose I need to talk about the justification of the lawn-watering ban (but is it justified given the copious amount of water the area has??).

Please redirect me if this was the wrong subbreddit to post this.

hey everyone, I’m currently a computer engineering student working on our capstone proposal or at least trying to lol.

so yeah here's the thing without further ado. We’ve already presented several ideas, tots, presenations, etc. but every single one got declined by our professor. He is super particular and fussy about what he wants. He wants something grounded like in a real & ongoing problem that exists in a community or institution — something that can be addressed by u know developing a system or prototype (since we are engineering ofc that's given).

He keeps telling us to “widen our horizon” and look at what's actually happening on the ground. Basically, do a needs assessment first, figure out what’s wrong or lacking in a certain group or place, then create something that could solve or ease that issue. Not the other way around.

I get it, I really do. It makes sense. But the pressure is really getting to me. We’ve been brainstorming for weeks which turns into a month and I’m just burnt out like literally. I wanna give up so bad but this is my last straw — I’m asking you guys here because I seriously can’t think straight anymore.

How do we even start finding a real problem in a community if we don’t have direct connections or obvious leads? I simply cannot bring myself to do this anymore and it sucks.

Any advice or tips would really help me on the track T_T

I just came across a TT job posting at a community college and didn't realize that was a thing. Is this common in any particular fields or U.S. states? Are TT jobs at community colleges almost 100% teaching/service, or is there a research expectation as well? And are there particular U.S. states where CC TT faculty are able to get benefits/pay comparable to those at public universities? For example, I've heard CC faculty in California are unionized and have been able to negotiate pretty decent pay.

For context, I'm in a computational STEM field, but I'm interested in hearing from any/all fields.

Hi!!! I am currently finishing my masters in Forensic Psych and have 2 Bachelors (psychology and criminology). I have 2 years of TA experience, but since my masters is online I do not have the opportunity to expand on this experience.

Does anyone have any tips on what to do in the next few years to help in my pursuit of being a CC professor? I love teaching and the CC professors that I had in the past truly impacted my life in a way that my BA professors did not. This really inspired me to want to teach CC and I have been thinking about it for the past few years.

I read through a few posts but the majority of them were revolving around English and History positions. I would love any advice, especially if it is more tailored to my field. Thank you!!

Im trying to transfer to college that is top 10 In public universities from community and I was wondering if dropping a class will affect my chances?

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As we all know, American students in higher education are in debt, that's a fact, we all know it. The problem I'm encountering is that the taxpayers are paying into the debts and grants the government provides. Let me explain.

When you pay taxes, your money has already left your paycheck, bank account, or whatnot. You will 90% of the time (guestimate) never see that money again in your life. This money is now circulating in the government which supports everything including bailouts of large corporations for their wrongdoings. This money is gone, you won't see it again (I want to ingrain that into your head).

Not everyone will go to college, but a lot of people do, even if it would be free. When you file your FAFSA and you receive your loans and grants, that comes from the taxpayers. These programs are supported by Americans. The government is charging interest on loans though to recoup the cost they spend on education (a system I'm sure that was supposed to have a net 0 or net positive cost). If they were making money off these loans provided by the taxpayer, it's almost like a double whammy to a students to where they are now paying MORE than the average taxpayer back to the government while also paying taxes.

With this system, it seems like a net loss for Americans as it circulates less money into the system and more into the government which could be in a closed or non-closed system with the Department of Education. If Americans are already paying into these programs with tax money *we probably won't see again besides in wars*, shouldn't education just be free?

In more critical thinking, I feel the economy would be more bolstered by students who have free money to spend on other things besides schools. I feel the 1.something trillion in student loan debt is massively inflated because of interest which shouldn't have been there in the first place. If the government just reported the base loan debt adjusted for inflation minus the interest, I feel that we wouldn't be in "debt". In my eyes, the system seems artificially inflated and extremely flawed. Instead of the 1.# trillion dollars in debt, I feel it would truly be a more understandable 1 or 2 hundred billion in debt adjusted for inflation.

I would love to hear thoughts from everyone about this system, if you think education should be free in America, and anything else you may want to share on this topic.

Thanks for reading! Have a good day!

Hi,

I'm wondering if anyone out there can shed some light on the California community college system.

I've applied for two positions--one in Orange County last year, which in the end I did not get, and one in Solano county, still pending--and for both, was invited for first round (maybe final round?) interviews, which were required to be in-person with 0 travel expenses covered.

This sucks, obviously, but both times, it just kinda worked out--being able to stay with friends, finding cheap flights, and being able to make nice mini trips around them. For this upcoming one, my partner generously pitched in some cash from a flight voucher. The positions seem to pay very well (considering cost of living out there, maybe this is not so exceptional, but on whole, the listed salaries appear greater than those of any other 4 year universities in California), and are in areas that are highly desirable for me personally. And I really need a freaking job. All of the above factors justified the OOP expenses for me.

Both interviews, different counties, have the identical format: show up shortly before, get a list of interview questions with a little time for prep, do a 20-minute teaching demo, then an interview with the committee.

I am just curious how many other people from out of state they are reaching out to for these positions, and how common it is that people actually pay for and make the trek? An underlying fear, I suppose, is that these institutions tend to just hire people already in California, but maybe have some sort of quota to have a few out-of-state candidates.

Also curious to hear what working at them is like. The position I'm currently in the running for is "tenure track", though what exactly that means in the context of a community college, where teaching, not research, seems to be the emphasis, really means.

Any info is appreciated! Except admonishing me for paying to go to a job interview--already made my peace with that.

Context: this is teaching film production.

Hey guys it’s my first time writing a research paper and I need to submit it to my professor in 2 weeks. I was wondering if any of you had any writing tips… They just want to see our aptitude for now so I have literally got nothing 😭So any ppt , tips on font, format or anything resources that are helpful… please let me know or DM. Thank you so much 🩵

I'm in the process of writing a speech about the Internet Archive and why it is a worthwhile organization to donate money to. However, as part of the assignment, I need at least 3 non-website sources to back up my claims. However, I'm having a difficult time finding anything about the internet archive that isn't originally from a website. Does anyone have techniques or resources that could help me find a few? Thank you in advance!

I want to perform data compression of an image. My goal is to Take an image, Send it to an auto encoder to perform the data compression and get the output which almost looks like the input. I want the data loss to be as minimal as possible. 

I will be giving only one image as an input. So to avoid problems of huge loss, I want to perform data augmentation to the image. I want to apply some data augmentation techniques to the image and get multiple different images. Those techniques are : 

1. Rotate the image by random 
2. Translation
3. Brightness Adjustment
4. Gamma Correction
5. Contrast Adjustment
6. Hue & Saturation Adjustments
7. Color Inversion

Now that I have different images, I want to send all of them to the autoencoder and perform the data compression and decompression and then reverse the data augmentation that has been applied to it and then check the Data loss of the input image and the output image. 

This is the basic idea I have in mind. I am open for some suggestions. Please do comment your opinions on this

Hi,

I'm wondering if anyone out there can shed some light on the California community college system.

I've applied for two positions--one in Orange County last year, which in the end I did not get, and one in Solano county, still pending--and for both, was invited for first round (maybe final round?) interviews, which were required to be in-person with 0 travel expenses covered.

This sucks, obviously, but both times, it just kinda worked out--being able to stay with friends, finding cheap flights, and being able to make nice mini trips around them. For this upcoming one, my partner generously pitched in some cash from a flight voucher. The positions seem to pay very well (considering cost of living out there, maybe this is not so exceptional, but on whole, the listed salaries appear greater than those of any other 4 year universities in California), and are in areas that are highly desirable for me personally. And I really need a freaking job. All of the above factors justified the OOP expenses for me.

Both interviews, different counties, have the identical format: show up shortly before, get a list of interview questions with a little time for prep, do a 20-minute teaching demo, then an interview with the committee.

I am just curious how many other people from out of state they are reaching out to for these positions, and how common it is that people actually pay for and make the trek? An underlying fear, I suppose, is that these institutions tend to just hire people already in California, but maybe have some sort of quota to have a few out-of-state candidates.

Also curious to hear what working at them is like. The position I'm currently in the running for is "tenure track", though what exactly that means in the context of a community college, where teaching, not research, seems to be the emphasis, really means.

Any info is appreciated! Except admonishing me for paying to go to a job interview--already made my peace with that.

Context: this is teaching film production.

i graduated hs with a 2.0~ due to family complications. i took a long gap year and i need advice on what to do to get back on track.

major: neuroscience (backup: radiology/sonography)

Hi all.

Recently i was asked to write a letter of support for an instructor of mine for an excellence in instructing award. This instructor was a really great instructor and provided a lot of support during our first classes so i want to do a good job. I have done some research but am having a hard time finding great resources for anything other than basic formatting tips (paper length, signature, etc). I received award criteria info and have used it to structure my letter.

My question is basically how formal/personal should the letter be? I feel that this instructor had an impact on my growth as a student and my confidence in my chosen program, and am very appreciative of them. I guess i am nervous to submit it and it be viewed as “too much.”

Can anyone please help?