Designing learning experiences

Ernest Becker's Beyond Alienation: A Philosophy of Education for the Crisis of Democracy

Dee Fink's Creating Significant Learning Experiences (2003) and his full-of-resources website

Why we have too few women leaders

Gender Wage Gap

The Gender Wage Gap by Occupation published some time ago by the Institute for Womens' Policy Research. In summary, no matter what, in the most common occupations for women, the most common occupations for men, the occupations with the highest earnings, the occupations with the lowest earnings: men earn more than women except in the "Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food" category. But bias only exists in your imagination...

Measuring Diversity

AAAS & NSF guide “Measuring Diversity: An Evaluation Guide for STEM Graduate Program Leaders" 2011

Research Deconstruction

Research-Based Science Instruction for Early-Stage Undergraduates and High School Students by HHMI Professor Utpal Banerjee at UCLA, the same professor who published a high impact factor paper on Drosphila eye development with 138 undergrads.

Ethics and Patents

Last week's news about gene patents brought to my mind a paper I re-read no long ago:

• Reasons Scientists Avoid Thinking about Ethics. Wolpe 2006. Cell

The news about the patents:

• Rulling Upholds Gene Patent in Cancer Test, on the New York Times.
• Pigs return to Earth: Federal Circuit Reinstates Most - but not all - of Myriad's Patents, a Genomics Law Report

Preparing Those Who will Become Faculty

Andrea Widener wonders on the HHMI bulletin Is there Room for Teaching and Research in a Postdoc Experience.

The Johns Hopkins Institute for Basic Medical Sciences launches a pilot program for postdocs who want to learn to teach.

Extensive information at the Preparing Future Faculty  Program including:

• Preparing Future Faculty in the Sciences and Mathematics: A Guide for Change
• Resources
• Research on Doctoral Education
• Emerging and Future Roles of Faculty
• Preparation to Assess Learning
• Infusing PFF Ideas into the Disciplines
• Organizing and Supporting Effective Mentoring
• Establishing and Maintaining Effective Partnerships
• Utilizing Case Studies in Discussion of Faculty Roles and Responsibilities
• Teaching Resource Links
• Research Resource Links
• Career and Job Search Information Links
• Miscellaneous "Graduate Student Life" Resource Links

Some teaching training programs I have heard of:

• FIRST IV
• The Teaching Fellow Postdocs at University of Colorado Boulder (I can't find the link but I know they exist!)
• SABER: Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research
• Teaching Postdoc Program at the University of Arizona
• SEPAL (Science Education Partnership and Assessment Laboratory) at SFSU

(if you know more, do not hesistate to leave a link on the comments)