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JazzCollinsPhD

A brief thread:

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I have found that most people don& #39;t know that being a professor entails more than teaching.

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It& #39;s easy to get frustrated when you tell someone that you are a professor and they say something like, "oh like a teacher...just say that then."

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But as the first Ph.D. in my family, I have to remember that many of us didn& #39;t grow up in families or communities with a lot of postsecondary education access and/or attainment.

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I didn& #39;t even know what a Ph.D. was prior to college.

@ELove1911 introduced me to a music professor who folks were calling "Doc" (the late, great Dr. James E. Mumford at Indiana University) and I was really confused because he wasn& #39;t a medical doctor.

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So I have had to train myself to use these conversations as an opportunity to share information.

I will say that I am a professor and when they ask what I teach (always the 1st question) I do tell them but I always follow it with "and I conduct research about..."

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I may also talk about mentoring/advising undergrad and grad students, service to the profession, and public/community engagement.

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Of course, there are many structural barriers, but one way to strengthen the #phdpipeline for marginalized communities is to be more transparent about what our roles entail, how we got here, and why we& #39;re passionate about what we do.

Let& #39;s talk about it early and often.

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