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If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it

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  1. pcfwik · · focus · HN ↗
    If this suggestion were to come to pass, I wonder how new math PhDs would think about choosing between a 'normal' R1 faculty job vs. the "teaching route" (teaching professorships, lectureships, community college professorships, or SLAC professorships).

    It's been my understanding that traditionally the ones who care about "motivated explanations" in this sense go for the latter, but if the research community has now decided they care about teaching and understanding, it might "even the playing field" and make the jobs more similar.

    1. breezybottom · · focus · HN ↗
      Evening the playing field would mean those R1 professors now teach five classes a semester for 50k a year instead of doing research.
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