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Some thoughts on undergraduate teaching and the Ph.D.

Published: 01 December 2000 Publication History

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As the hiring crisis in academic computer science worsens, many people ask whether faculty whose primary job is teaching need doctorates. In the past, the answer would have been "yes;" now people increasingly suggest that it could be "no." I have argued in my own department for hiring only faculty with doctorates, because, while the doctorate does not directly train people to teach, it does seem to correlate with many characteristics of a good educator. This paper explores the thinking underlying my view, in hopes that it may help others clarify the needs and reasoning behind their own faculty searches.

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[1] Clear, T. "Eating Our Seed Corn" or Restricting Crop Diversity? SIGCSE Bulletin 31,2 (June 1999), 15-16.
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[2] Gates, A. Q. et al. Meeting the Challenge of Expanding Participation in the Undergraduate Research Experience, Proceedings of Frontiers in Education '98, Oct. 1998.
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[3] Roberts, E. Conserving the Seed Corn: Reflections on the Academic Hiring Crisis. SIGCSE Bulletin 31, 4 (Dec. 1999), 4-9.

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cover image ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
ACM SIGCSE Bulletin  Volume 32, Issue 4
Dec. 2000
74 pages
ISSN:0097-8418
DOI:10.1145/369295
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Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

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Published: 01 December 2000
Published in SIGCSE Volume 32, Issue 4

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