But the Swarthmore model is not the only one out there; at some teaching-oriented colleges, teaching experience is almost a necessity.
That postdocs who do a lot of teaching often end up working at teaching-oriented colleges is not surprising; they have, after all, demonstrated an interest in teaching by the choices they've made during training.
But that's a mistake, too, says Clifford, because teaching-oriented universities want people with proven teaching skills.
On the other hand, his teaching postdoc has helped him land interviews at teaching-oriented colleges: "[PUIs] respond very positive[ly] to my FIRST experience.
Dear Cindy, I don't know what your teaching load is, but since you're at a small, teaching-oriented institution it's almost certainly larger than it would be at, for example, Johns Hopkins.
The Statler Hotel is a student-run, teaching-oriented hotel on campus just one block away from the Computer Science Department.
Three of the teams used a process based on the Unified Process for Education (UPEDU), a teaching-oriented process derived from the Rational Unified Process.
Students have also taken jobs at more teaching-oriented schools, such as the Cal State campuses, Oberlin, Wellesley, Barnard, Boston College, Wesleyan and Sarah Lawrence.
As well as allowing private providers to operate openly, it forces universities to compete for better-qualified students in off-quota places – meaning a chaotic scramble for funding, and increasingly unreliable funding sources for teaching-oriented universities.
While salespeople need to be comfortable with the tension inherent in a teaching-oriented sales conversation, sales and marketing leaders must create teachable insights for them to deliver in the first place.
Women are relatively well represented on teaching-oriented faculties.
