Re: [ECOLOG-L] what makes a biology program good?

2010-11-12 Thread malcolm McCallum
t; for moving into "good" biology-related jobs. >>   >> From: Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news [ >> ecolo...@listserv.umd.edu] On Behalf Of malcolm McCallum [ >> malcolm.mccal...@herpconbio.org] >> Sent: Thursday, N

Re: [ECOLOG-L] what makes a biology program good?

2010-11-12 Thread malcolm McCallum
__ > From: Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news > [ecolo...@listserv.umd.edu] On Behalf Of Aimee Phillippi > [aphilli...@unity.edu] > Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 7:14 AM > To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU > Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] what makes a biology program good?

Re: [ECOLOG-L] what makes a biology program good?

2010-11-12 Thread Caitriona Carlin
From: Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news [ > ecolo...@listserv.umd.edu] On Behalf Of malcolm McCallum [ > malcolm.mccal...@herpconbio.org] > Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 10:16 PM > To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU > Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] what makes a biology program good? > &g

Re: [ECOLOG-L] what makes a biology program good?

2010-11-12 Thread David L. McNeely
Malcolm, this might be controversial, but I would say the program needs to be large enough (have enough faculty and students) that diversity of thoughts and breadth of training (for faculty) are sufficient. I know some advocate small programs for personal attention, especially for undergraduate

Re: [ECOLOG-L] what makes a biology program good?

2010-11-12 Thread Christopher Heckscher
AM To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] what makes a biology program good? Being at a school that is currently revising its biology program, I'm interested in folks' opinions on this. I'm especially interested in perspectives on Malcolm's first list item. Specifically,

Re: [ECOLOG-L] what makes a biology program good?

2010-11-12 Thread Laurel Anderson
m.mccal...@herpconbio.org] > Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 10:16 PM > To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU > Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] what makes a biology program good? > > I didn't really have anything specific in mind regarding what you > listed.  In fact, though most general

Re: [ECOLOG-L] what makes a biology program good?

2010-11-12 Thread Eric Enrique Flores De Gracia
_ > From: Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news [ > ecolo...@listserv.umd.edu] On Behalf Of malcolm McCallum [ > malcolm.mccal...@herpconbio.org] > Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 10:16 PM > To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU > Subject:

Re: [ECOLOG-L] what makes a biology program good?

2010-11-12 Thread Aimee Phillippi
11, 2010 10:16 PM To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] what makes a biology program good? I didn't really have anything specific in mind regarding what you listed. In fact, though most general bio programs are divided up in tracts of the programs you listed. I guess I wasn't really

Re: [ECOLOG-L] what makes a biology program good?

2010-11-11 Thread malcolm McCallum
I didn't really have anything specific in mind regarding what you listed. In fact, though most general bio programs are divided up in tracts of the programs you listed. I guess I wasn't really looking at specialized programs when I posed the question but graduate or undergraduate, generalized or

[ECOLOG-L] what makes a biology program good?

2010-11-11 Thread malcolm McCallum
Hi, My brother asked this question: What standards would you use to evaluate whether a biology program is viable, good, excellent in educational quality? IT got me thinking? What do you think? -- Malcolm L. McCallum Managing Editor, Herpetological Conservation and Biology "Peer pressure is des