Calvin H. Wang was an assistant professor and librarian to the sciences in a small, liberal arts university, 2005-2022.
• Finding new comfort zones • [2½ MIN READ] Running is not only great physically, but also socially. It’s given me opportunities to interact with people of all stripes in spaces where I wouldn’t otherwise. As a practice, I started saying hi to people right from the start (we’re talking in 2011 as a middle-aged … More New Communities
• Recognize the different ones in use • [1½ MIN READ] Conversations and collaboration are prone to going haywire when participants are naïve to or ignorant of the ways they and others are engaging together. In politics, conversations about partisanship often overlook the reality that ideological considerations can shape conviction independent of party membership. In … More A Consideration of Angles of Perspective
• Applying higher level thinking to lower level writing • [4 MIN READ] A definition of scholarship I like to use is ‘scholars writing for other scholars with scholarly intent’. As for the definition of scholar, I use ‘someone who contributes directly to schooling’, i.e., a teacher or an educator. Most of the time, suitable … More Common Knowledge and Relative Authority
• Seriously? Not really. • [1 MIN READ] A recent event that I wrote about (“Hello?”) was just a little bit of me being me. Apparently at least one friend saw potential for me being even more of me: “Calvin, this might be a new ministry area for you: Wrong numbers.” “You mean, ‘Hi, is … More An Experimental Line of Work
• A look back at the timing • [1½ MIN READ] Imposter Syndrome At various points in my early professional life, across careers and employers, there was a decent bit of uncertainty. A phrase that materialized during those stages and that is thematic for many early professionals is “imposter syndrome.” I, like those others, was … More Why This and Why Now
• A look back at the construction process • [1 MIN READ] iCandybyWangC.com began as a renewed blog in 2016 (Timeline) with traditional blog-length, professional Information Seeking content. It continued in that form until 2022. In 2018, I began publishing short-form running writing on Facebook as Cerebruns and in 2019 as Ruminations. That writing eased … More New Writing and a New Website
• When you decide not to hang up • [7 MIN READ] One of the people I get together with regularly is happy to break bread at any of a few places where we usually frequent, but occasionally we need to expand our horizons. A recent attempt to do just that became an exercise both … More Hello? I’m Looking for Information
• Well, which is it? ±? • On the morning when we were supposed to be on our way to AK for volunteer service work, Wife decided to do a COVID-19 home test. D-minus-3 days before, she had been en route back home from a late-developing work trip in NV and had started feeling an … More Positive Amid Negative
• Living as an evangelical Christian • I told my physical therapist that I’d be out for a few weeks because I was going to Alaska. Hearing a bit of news like that always makes people think “cruise”; which would be fine if the team of us was actually going on a cruise. So I … More Yes, People Actually Do That
I’m sure most jobs have aspects that are not part of the job description. They’re the stuff of water cooler conversations. And if the bulk of your job requires working with students, the drama can increase dramatically. How you react to an interaction can then make it the stuff of legend. Enter an honors student. … More Life Coach: A Legend in Their Own…
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