At The Well This Week
Audrey Chan reflects on the places God is meeting her and the ways grad school is forming her spiritually in humility, steadfastness, and presence.
“What was so hard about grad school? Where is God meeting me in this, this “hardest thing I’ve ever done”? I realized that grad school was shaping my thoughts, mind, and perspective in ways that were about much more than math.”
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Five(!) More Things We Loved This Week
Have you tracked this story about the NYU organic chemistry professor who was fired after students protested their failing grades? It’s a microcosm for so many issues playing out in higher education right now. I’d love to know what you think.
From Beth Allison Barr: “A Reflection on Why (Some?) Women Flourish in Complementarian Spaces.” Feel free to leave a comment about this one too.
The Mold that Changed the World, a musical about the discovery of penicillin, is being performed in DC this month, with a chorus made up of medical professionals who love to sing!
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Thank you for the great piece Audrey! As a PhD student, everything you wrote was very relatable.
That article about the organic chemistry professor was fascinating! So many complexities on all sides. I'm thinking about this question from John Beckman in the article: “Do these courses really need to be punitive in order to be rigorous?” I do think that a lot of traditional assessment models need rethinking, but I also think students often need some high-stakes situations in order to truly learn to study well.
But the saddest part, in my view, is the messaging from the administration that students need to be happy so that they'll keep paying tuition. Just another example of the way the whole system is broken.