Author Archives for Quinn1234
The ‘New Tenure’?
These are my comments inspired by the article that Mike Rizzo pointed out ( http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/10/02/wcu). The main idea of the article is that other criteria, not just research, are now being considered as ‘credit’ towards tenure. Some of these non-research criteria mentioned were developing online tools for teachers to use in the classroom (which I got […]
The “Honest Truth” on how I did it!
This afternoon I logged on to the AIER fellows blog to see if anyone had posted anything new for me to comment on (I’m much better at commenting than coming up with my own topic of the day) and I realized, Oh no!, there is a topic with my name in it! Once again Mike […]
So who is this Pareto dude?
So I am studying for my qualifying exams still at the moment and can tell you everything I need to about setting up a LaGrangian, taking partial derivatives, maximizing utility functions w.r.t. budget constraints, etc., but today I realize, my god!, I don’t really know why I am doing this. I could not explain what […]



