Glad to be Teaching

I was listening to a radio interview with a researcher who, rather than working at a university, worked at a research institute. It reminded me of a friend who described one of his colleagues leaving academia to work at a research company. I would definitely say that my favorite part of my job is research. (That is in contrast to a statistic that I just read that said that 70% of faculty across the country prefer teaching to research.) However, I don't think I would ever want to leave a university setting for a research institute. There is something energizing about being around students, and I think the act of sharing what I do with students makes me better at research. I'm glad to be where I am.

NCA submissions are progressing. Today is an important day for getting things together for the panel that I'm proposing. I was working on one of the papers that I'm proposing, and it's occurring to me that the literature review is not right. I'm planning to submit it to the organizational communication division, but there is really only one org. comm. citation in the whole lit. review. Part of that is that it's a new direction, bringing in ideas from a different subfield. I'm going to work today and tomorrow to strengthen the rationale and the organizational part of the paper to make it more relevant.