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How does your department / university measure quality teaching?

Student ratings of instruction certainly are unreliable at judging quality instruction. Sure, they can provide indications of good or bad performance but they cannot be the measure. In my...

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How can discrete mathematics attain equal stature with other areas of mathematics?

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How do you feel about human gene editing?

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