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divilian

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Passionate educator. Progressive Christian. Principled Thinker. Proud husband and father of three.

I'm a professor of DS and CS at UMW (Virginia USA), a public liberal arts institution. My passion is working with undergraduates to help them develop the technical skills necessary, and how to engage their world sufficiently, to succeed in being transformational actors.

I'm also the creator of the https://allthemath.org educational resources and the https://positionofprivilege.org blog.

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If we collectively stopped writing letters of recommendation, what would change? What new things would be created in the fresh space?

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@ttpphd @academicchatter ah, interesting. my first thought is that the system would become more objective, since you'd be eliminating a potential source of bias (who you happen to know, and who happens to be a big name, and who is prepared to write impressive things about you). but maybe this would only shift the landscape and effectively put more of the evaluation burden on journal reviewers and editors, who may have their own biases...

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