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"When applying to be an assistant professor, you will be interviewed on your research experience, personal teaching philosophy, and technical understanding of your field of study. The university will want to be sure your research interests and teaching style are compatible with the programs you will be a part of. To become an assistant professor is usually the first step taken by students who have received their doctorates on their paths to becoming full professors."

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Why FDU? Teaching and research statements. They said that the position was mainly teaching, but their reasoning for not hiring was was lack of future research . The research committee was very disorganized, full of personal ego. They wanted a perfect candidate ( good luck with that). Every time a faculty asked me me a question they would be looking at one particular faculty as if she was holding a gun to their face. The faculty was full o arrogance, pointed out some minor mistakes in presentation. I would never want to work with such groups of people even if they offered the position on a plate.
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Interviewed at Fairleigh Dickinson University

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Nov 9, 2017

Why FDU? Teaching and research statements. They said that the position was mainly teaching, but their reasoning for not hiring was was lack of future research . The research committee was very disorganized, full of personal ego. They wanted a perfect candidate ( good luck with that). Every time a faculty asked me me a question they would be looking at one particular faculty as if she was holding a gun to their face. The faculty was full o arrogance, pointed out some minor mistakes in presentation. I would never want to work with such groups of people even if they offered the position on a plate.

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