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Steven K. Ayer and Bryan Franz

This podcast is aimed at providing honest experiences about challenges, failures, and possibly a few success stories related to life in academia.

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79 episodes

  1. A Rant About Email 1:14:30
  2. When is future work NOT needed? 57:30
  3. The Age of Grade Inflation 1:04:46
  4. Handling Technology Vendors 52:18
  5. Conference Planning Headaches with Chuma Nnaji 1:10:22
  6. That's it! I'm outta here! 1:05:18
  7. Bend but don't break - When to allow failures for impactful graduate student learning 1:03:42
  8. Guest: Dan Aukes - Leaving a tenured faculty position? But why?? 1:10:01
  9. Life After Tenure: What do we do after the game of tenure is over? 1:03:14
  10. a policy? The Policy? Any policy? 56:49
  11. Advisors and Advisees: Setting Expectations 1:04:51
  12. What if federally-funded research ended? 1:03:47
  13. Decoding Faculty Excuses 58:23
  14. Peer Review Problems 1:11:34
  15. Sharing Ideas: ♫You’ve got to know when to hold ‘em; know when to disclose ‘em♫ 1:11:47
  16. "FOIA'd" with Denise Simmons 1:09:22
  17. Rebuilding new careers (and more) with Matt Morris 1:09:41
  18. Can the professor come out and play??? 1:00:07
  19. Moving from a teaching-focused to research-focused institution 1:23:36
  20. Cold Emails 1:07:53
  21. Kristen Parrish discusses writing P&T letters 1:04:57
  22. Research Projects: Finishing Strong 1:01:07
  23. Summer Summer Summertime 57:22
  24. Administration... Bryan goes to the Dark Side! 1:09:47
  25. Publishing with AI and the future of research output 1:13:19
  26. Bryan and Steve struggle to teach new courses 1:04:32
  27. 'Unfundable' with Fred Sherratt 1:14:28
  28. Risky Business with John Gambatese 1:13:05
  29. Bryan's Sabbatical Reflection 55:15
  30. Working Abroad with guest Daniel Hall 1:00:44
  31. Bryan cancels the pie chart 1:00:21
  32. Burcu Akinci - Imposter Sydrome 55:59
  33. Moving Institutions 53:59
  34. The Daily Routine of an Academic 1:16:26
  35. Failure in leading 1:01:50
  36. Working in a National Lab with Dr. Kieren McCord 1:01:10
  37. Shedding 'Leicht' on Sabbaticals with Rob Leicht 1:08:50
  38. Faculty "Tropes" in Academia 52:14
  39. Surviving the first year of teaching with Prof. Jennifer Lather 1:02:43
  40. Attracting Top PhD Students 57:14
  41. Academic Freedom 55:28
  42. Teaching - Back to normal?? 55:09
  43. Kasey Faust 1:02:10
  44. Social Look-At-Media in Academia 58:30
  45. Using your startup funding wisely 51:52
  46. Serving on a Faculty Search Committee 1:00:27
  47. Tenured? How does it feel? 1:12:21
  48. Robert LiKamWa 1:02:14
  49. Transitioning from Engineering to Engineering Education with Professor Logan Perry 52:51
  50. Poor solutions to poorly structured problems 1:06:47