Academia

Posts about universities, faculty life, graduate school, research funding, academic publishing, and higher education policy.

2025-10-08Labwork to Leadership
2024-01-08Theory and Practice
2024-01-06My Academic Flyby Revisited
2023-07-27I Don't Think It's Going to Be Better
2020-07-09Thoughts from a Not-So-Influential Educator
2020-03-30SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award
2019-11-03Ten Simple Rules That Are Missing
2019-07-05A Modest Proposal
2019-05-30Software Engineering Revisited
2019-03-24Occupations
2019-02-25Making It Work in Practice
2018-03-26The Senior Professor's Handbook
2012-04-03Congratulations to Max and Marcus
2010-12-29More Musings on the Value of a PhD
2010-09-13Will America's Universities Go The Way Of Its Car Companies?
2010-08-06Congratulations to Jorge Aranda
2010-08-04I'm Still Sort of a Professor
2010-04-22Congratulations to Jason and Jon
2010-03-15Master of Science in Applied Computing
2010-01-20Someone Leaves School, Someone Comes to School
2009-09-22Grant Proposal
2009-08-30Discussing the Balance
2009-08-24Bad News and Good News
2009-07-21Elsevier's Future, Version 0.1
2009-05-01The Week in Review
2009-04-28NSERC Should Just Give the Money Away
2009-04-23What Supervisors Need To Know
2009-04-17Zero for Six
2009-03-15Research in Action Showcase on March 24, 2009
2009-03-10Things I'd Like to Accomplish (Version 2)
2009-02-12How Dare They Hold Us Accountable?
2009-01-28Congratulations to Samira, Jeremy, and Carolyn
2009-01-26Where My Time Is Going
2009-01-17Graduate Students
2009-01-11Where My Time Goes
2009-01-03Graduating in a Recession
2008-12-29Profs on Facebook
2008-10-21The Thesis Hat
2008-06-18Where My Grad Students Are
2008-02-17Graduate Directions
2007-10-19Requirements Conference Prize
2007-10-10DrProject Funding Proposal Rejected
2007-04-24Tenure, Fertility, and Misinformation
2007-01-26The Trouble with Tech Transfer