Visiting faculty are of many kinds. This is my observation based on "years of experience" with them.
1. The humble, do my job and get on kind.
2. The arrogant, I know it all kind-usually from industry
3. The crowd-pleasing types, equivalent to the populist politicians (both from industry and academia)
4. Extremely boring but technically proficient in a narrow field
5. Full of war stories-boasting about what they did (many of these are a result of wild imagination rather than fact)
6. Good blenders of theory and practice (many with modest experience of both industry and academia)
7. Good researchers with lots of publications to their credit, with little idea of how practicable any of their research is (academicians, of course)
8. Good communicators, and little else- they can speak on any subject under the sun.
That's all for now. Will be back when I can remember other types.
1. The humble, do my job and get on kind.
2. The arrogant, I know it all kind-usually from industry
3. The crowd-pleasing types, equivalent to the populist politicians (both from industry and academia)
4. Extremely boring but technically proficient in a narrow field
5. Full of war stories-boasting about what they did (many of these are a result of wild imagination rather than fact)
6. Good blenders of theory and practice (many with modest experience of both industry and academia)
7. Good researchers with lots of publications to their credit, with little idea of how practicable any of their research is (academicians, of course)
8. Good communicators, and little else- they can speak on any subject under the sun.
That's all for now. Will be back when I can remember other types.
3 comments:
I periodically visit mine (faculties) through meditation to see if they are working
great idea..they are a vanishing breed.
The Visiting Card type - call me whenever you can.
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