Professional Organizations, Resources, and Links
Connect to more than 50 resources for part-time and adjunct instructors, including articles about academia, job listings, academic and professional organizations, and software.

Section Topics:
Academic Life
Adjunct and Part-time Teaching
Job Listings
Journals
Libraries, Links, and ListServs
Organizations and Conferences
Software


Academic Life

Re-envisioning the Ph.D.: This project, funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts, is exploring how to rethink the Ph.D. in light of 21st century societal needs.

The Truth about Tenure in Higher Education: Published by the Higher Education Departments of the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, this NEA-AFT Online brochure deals with some of the concerning the institution of tenure.

U.S. College and University Web Addresses: No more time-consuming web searches! This page of UT Austin Web Central contains an alphabetic list of regionally-accredited U.S. universities. The list includes only 4-year institutions; 2-year branch campuses of 4-year institutions are listed on the Web U.S. Community Colleges page.

U.S. Community College Web Addresses: No more time-consuming web searches! This page of UT Austin Web Central lists regionally-accredited community colleges in the U.S. and provides links to those with a Web presence.

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Journals

Institute of Mathematical Sciences Bulletin: The IMS Bulletin publishes the IMS Meetings' programs and abstracts, and an international calendar of statistical events, as well as articles and news of interest to IMS members and to statisticians and probabilists in general.

International Journal for Mathematics Teaching and Learning: This electronic journal aims to enhance mathematics teaching for all ages (and abilities) up to 18 years, through relevant articles, reviews and information from around the world. Aimed at practitioners and educationalists, it provides a medium for stimulating and challenging ideas, offering innovation and practice in all aspects of mathematics teaching and learning.

Journal of Computing in Higher Education: Publishes peer-reviewed essays, reviews, reports, and research articles that contribute to our understanding of the issues, problems, and research associated with instructional technologies and educational environments. Articles exploring innovative pedagogical techniques, experimenting with instructional technologies, or improving learner-centered assessment are encouraged. Articles are referenced in several national indexing/abstracting services.

Journal of Statistics Education: The journal disseminates knowledge for the improvement of statistics education at all levels, including elementary, secondary, post-secondary, post-graduate, continuing, and workplace education. http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/.
Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM): Provides links to news, journals and books, conferences, and professional opportunities.

The Technology Source: This peer-reviewed bimonthly periodical published by the Michigan Virtual University, provides thoughtful, illuminating articles that will assist educators as they face the challenge of integrating information technology tools into teaching and into managing educational organizations. Use the discussion option available in each article to respond to that article.

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Libraries, Links, and ListServs

American Statistical Association Sections Page (for Newsletters): Includes Amstat news and calendar, as well as an opportunity to search within Amstat sections for information on a particular topic in statistics.

The Carnegie Foundation e-Library for Scholarship, Teaching, and Learning: A collection of articles and reports available for online reading or download. Also includes a link to the KML gallery of teaching examples. The gallery provides examples of ways that faculty can make ideas, insights, and new understandings generated in the course of teaching available so that others can build upon them.

CataList: The official list of Internet listservs. From this page, you can browse any of the 71,992 public LISTSERV lists on the Internet, search for mailing lists of interest, and get information about LISTSERV host sites.

The Liszt Discussion Group Search Program: A way to join over 90,000 mailing lists and discussion groups.
Mathematics and Statistics Links: You’ll find a wealth of math and stats links at this Brooks/Cole site.

Newsgroups: Using key words or phrases, search newsgroup postings for information on a product, an industry, a hobby, or practically anything else of interest.

StatLib (Index): A page reached through the statistics department of Carnegie Mellon University, this is a system for distributing statistical software, datasets, and information by electronic mail, FTP and WWW.

StatLib (Datasets Archive): More than 100 datasets archived on this Carnegie Mellon site, free for the taking.

StatLib (JASA Data Archive): The jasadata archive contains contributed datasets from articles published in the Journal of the American Statistical Association.

Stat-Ease: Homepage for information concerning Stat-Ease Design of Experiments (DOE) software, as well as books, training, and consulting services. Improve the product quality, develop efficient processes, quickly solve manufacturing problems, and make discoveries by applying powerful statistical methods.

WWW Virtual Library of Statistics: A page provided by the University of Florida’s Department of Statistics, the site includes links to data sets, job announcements, schools of statistics listed by continent, statistical software vendors, statistical journals, and more.

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