Please only answer if you’re already a faculty member.
I have an upcoming on-campus interview at a research university. I am focused on presenting myself as a possible colleague to the faculty, so I’m trying to shed the graduate student mentality where faculty are Drs./ubermensch and graduate students are lowly untermensch.
But I also recognize the need to be respectful. Addressing faculty as "Dr. so and so" would ensure I’m deferential, but also might make me appear as an unequal.
Thoughts?
Please, only answer if you’re a faculty member.

I do not need to be a faculty member to answer as this information is usually learned in graduate school and the only additional information which would be provided by a faculty member would be personal and not applicable to anyone else. (I hold a non-academic doctorate and have spent eleven years on university campuses.)

Faculty are initially addressed as Doctor if they hold that degree, as Professor if they hold that rank (or assistant or associate professor rank) and do not hold a doctorate, and otherwise as Mr. or Ms., unless they teach at one of the very snobby schools where they prefer always to be called Mr. or Ms. Another exception would be to address the faculty member as Dean, Provost, etc, if s/he holds such a rank which is higher than professor.

If the faculty member prefers to be addressed otherwisee, s/he will voluntarily tell you. However, this is a professional meeting among stangers and professionals who have not previously met each other and are not members of the same very small (not national) organization normally address each other by their titles at the time of the first address. It is a sign of mutual respect, not deference, and they should address you as Doctor if you hold that degree.

google: free, digital lectures from colleges.

U see:

1. professor giving lectures.

2. students taking notes.

3. blackboard where note is written.

all colleges are basically the same.

$200,000 to watch someone give a lecture when all it is free.

college should be free. especially public colleges paid with tax money.

university of california, michigan, texas, oregon, arizona, should give all courses, material away for free.

All paid with tax money. knowledge belongs to the world.

But online you do not participate in discussions, research, homework, or anything that actually matters. You do realize that schools need that tuition money right? If we didn’t pay tuition they would jut hike up taxes to where no one could afford anything. You didn’t really think this through, they don;t just charge money for the heck if it. Tuition money pays for research, books, computers and technology, salaries, development, housing, and scholarships just to name a few. It would not be fair to charge this in taxes to people who do not even go to college. You should go back over your math, college cannot be free in America. You also have to realize that you can watch videos online all day and no one will give you a job because you do not have a degree, or portfolio, or references let alone experience!

We’ve done the whole "happy hour" thing, it really has run its course. We’re a middle school faculty of 30, and not really looking to spend more than 400-500 bucks. We were looking at ideas such as bowling, ropes course and the like.

You may want to have a look here: http://www3.telus.net/chase-games

This site describes an Amazing Race party plan that is great for a birthday party, sleepovers, scavenger hunt, etc and is designed for kids aged 10 – 16. The “legs” of the Amazing Race party plan sell on eBay quite cheap (like $5). Good Luck!

Suppose that a department contains 8 men and 16 women. How many ways are there to form a committee with 6 members if it must have strictly more women than men?

The various forms the committee can take:

WWWWWW (one way)
WWWWWM (6 ways — the M can be in any one of six chairs)
WWWWMM) (15 ways)

It cannot be 3W and 3 M (this would not be "strictly" more women)

Then in each combo, count the ways that each chair can be filled:

In the first case, from 16 women, pick 6
C(16, 6) = 16! / (6! 10!) = 8008

In the second case:
From 16 women pick 5 and from 8 men pick one
C(16,5)*C(8,1) = [16! / (5! 11!) ] * 8

In the third case:
From 16 women pick 4 and from 8 men pick 2
C(16,4)*C(8,2) = [16! / (4! 12!) ] * [ 8! / (2! 6!) ]

Add all three results.

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If the order is important (if the fact that a person is chosen for the 2nd chair instead of the 3rd chair makes a difference), then you’d have to worry about the various ways that each combo can be made:

There are 6 chairs and there are C(6. w) ways to arrange the six people (where w is the number of women on the committee).

C(6,6)*C(16,6)*C(8,0) + C(6,5)*C(16,5)*C(8,1) + C(6,4)*C(16,4)*C(8,2)

I added the C(8,0) to shorten the equation (which you will see later if you continue with probabilities).

C(8,0) means "from 8 men, pick zero" and there is only one way to pick none.
C(8,0) = 1
In fact, C(k,0)=1 for any positive number k.
Therefore, it changes nothing to the result, but shows a pattern

Total number of ways to pick a committee of 6 people, where the number of women can only be greater than the number of men, is a "sum"

Sum (as w goes from 4 to 6) of { C(6,w)*C(16, w)*C(8,(6-w))}

The "Sum as w…" part would be written as a capital sigma (the greek letter that looks like this Σ) with "w=4" written below the bottom line of the letter and "6" written above the top line of the letter.

It will simply mean, make a term for each possible value of w (here the possible values are 4, 5 and 6) then "sum" all these terms (meaning, add them up).

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Although it looks like an E for us, the letter Σ is an "S", and it stands for "sum" in this kind of equation.

I want to get into this grad program and I want to make an impression on one of my future professors. What should I say in my first email?

Investigate a little personal info. Plus try to find a previous student that already had that professor mention that person, state your goals and why it is imperative for your furture that this professor is the one teaching you. most of the time its all about who you know and also leave a good impression on your current proffessor’s bad new’s travel fast

I have just been listening to Billy Joel’s "The Longest Time" in which he is reminiscing about his high school days. The video is overwhelmingly vulgar and reeks of lower class sentimentality. I cannot imagine such a vid being made in a university graduation setting. But that was in the past. Do proletarians now proceed to university? And where is the last refuge of the genteel classes?

Apparently the proletariat’s don’t know what proletariat means.

I am writing a story for English and I have to describe the inside of the police department.. How would you feel in there? How does it smells there? How does it looks in there?

Never been to police department before.

Depends…are you going in through the front door to speak with someone working there or are you going through the back were people are arrested?

The front is nice and neat.
The back is full of stink from inmate body oder.

The front is more of an office setting.
The back is more of an area for finger printing, photos and holding cells.

The front is more quiet with people chatting.
The back is more loud with drunks yelling and officers/deputies barking orders at dirt bags.

I am taking John Miller for 1301 and am not sure if I should take him for 1302.
Thanks!

Take Mr. Miller hes good !

My english teacher is an old lady who basically only teaches when she feels like it, but because of the teachers unions in California her tenure makes it so she cant be fired. Myself and other students have talked with the superintendent of the school district, principal of my high school, etc., but she cant be fired. Is it even possible to fire a terrible teacher like this?
BTW: Its not just kids who hate their teacher and are in some stupid grudge, the superintendant of the district wants to fire her.

Repeat the Serenity Prayer regarding this teacher: God give me the strength to change the things I can change, the serenity to accept the things I can not change, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Translation: stop beating your head against the wall over this teacher. You can not get this teacher fired. If the superintendent can not do it, then barring some egregious misconduct, you will not be successful at getting her removed.

Learn what you can from the situation. Move on with your life. This too will pass.

I’ve been reading my required textbook for my Political Science class, trying to find the specific terms that matches the definitions. Here are some of the definitions that my instructor assigned for homework that I’m stuck on :

5.) Strong state governments over the central government.

12.) Creates a smaller national government and gives power back to the states.

Any help would be appreciated!

I, also am a political science major. As far as 5 goes that sounds like a Confederation but the other I am not sure what that term would be