Teaching graduate mathematics at AIMS Cameroon

My grad course in mathematics at AIMS Cameroon.

Teaching graduate mathematics at AIMS Cameroon

My grad course in mathematics at AIMS Cameroon.

Advice to myself as a doctoral student

I have come full circle: I began my academic journey as a doctoral student, and now almost 20 years later I am Associate Dean of Graduate Studies at Ryerson University. There is no guidebook on how to be a successful doctoral student, nor one for Associate Dean for that matter. Much of what works in…

Sayre’s law: required wisdom for all academics

In my time as Associate Dean: Students and Program in the Yeates School of Graduate Studies, I have addressed a wide array of student academic issues. These range from student appeals, to separations between supervisors and students, to complaints emanating directed from or towards students or faculty members.  These are delicate matters that could not be…