Academia

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

2026-03-25A Modest Proposal
2025-10-08Labwork to Leadership
2024-01-08Theory and Practice
2023-01-20What Would Entice Them?
2022-11-20Journal of Comprehensible Explanations
2020-07-09Thoughts from a Not-So-Influential Educator
2020-06-20June 2020 Papers
2020-03-30SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award
2019-11-03Ten Simple Rules That Are Missing
2019-05-30Software Engineering Revisited
2019-03-24Occupations
2019-02-25Making It Work in Practice
2018-11-15The Real Open Challenges
2018-10-31Credit and Respect
2018-08-12The Real Challenge
2018-03-26The Senior Professor's Handbook
2018-03-24Grand Unified Editor Theory
2018-02-27I'm Missing
2018-02-18Teaching Programming in the Wild
2017-01-08Pennies for Understanding
2017-01-06Them That's Got
2014-11-18IP Communism
2014-09-11What Sciences Are There?
2014-04-05Does Continuous Publication Require Continuous Attention?
2013-11-16Citing Us In Your CV
2012-12-23Computer Science Curricula 2013
2012-12-06Two Solitudes Illustrated
2012-11-19If Udacity is Napster, Who Will Be iTunes?
2012-10-22Getting Credit
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
2009-08-24Bad News and Good News
2009-08-24Science and JoVE
2009-08-21Tools for Teams
2009-07-21Elsevier's Future, Version 0.1
2009-06-01Video Abstracts
2009-05-01Something I Don't Know How to Fix
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
2009-01-17Graduate Students
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
2005-03-15Pythoneers at SIGSCSE