Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"Dr"

Yeah, right

Come on. In your own professional setting, it's fine to use Dr. as a title when you've earned a doctorate in that field.

It's technically accurate but widely mocked among PHD holders. The title is widely understood to be used primarily by medical doctors.

I’m a professor with a science PhD from Yale. Can confirm. The only people in PhD circles in America who insist on using “Dr” are the ones who want to flaunt their degrees.

It is widely mocked amongst PhD holders.

At the university level "Professor" is a title of respect. PhD's are a dime a dozen. Calling someone "Dr." is a backhanded way of dissing them for not getting tenure.

As a former professor, this is completely off-base. But agree, let's move on.

You hear about Dr. Martin Luther King all the time...

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Anonymous wrote:She was at the recent JO Wilson community meeting (see other thread) and she seemed to be the most reasonable member of the leadership team. The rest were using jargon, refusing to acknowledge parents and seemed oblivious to very obvious parent concerns... I wonder if it had anything to do with it.... if she was in charge of Aileen Murphy who is the IS for the JO Wilson Cluster, I wouldn't be surprised if that was connected. Murphy is trouble.

Um, excuse me? That's Grandma Murphy to you. She is the Grandmother of JO Wilson.

What's the deal with Aileen Murphy - she is IS for my kids' school too...

It’s pretty common to use it in education. Whatever. Can we move on?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"Dr"

Yeah, right

Come on. In your own professional setting, it's fine to use Dr. as a title when you've earned a doctorate in that field.

It's technically accurate but widely mocked among PHD holders. The title is widely understood to be used primarily by medical doctors.

I’m a professor with a science PhD from Yale. Can confirm. The only people in PhD circles in America who insist on using “Dr” are the ones who want to flaunt their degrees.

It is widely mocked amongst PhD holders.

At the university level "Professor" is a title of respect. PhD's are a dime a dozen. Calling someone "Dr." is a backhanded way of dissing them for not getting tenure.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"Dr"

Yeah, right

Come on. In your own professional setting, it's fine to use Dr. as a title when you've earned a doctorate in that field.

It's technically accurate but widely mocked among PHD holders. The title is widely understood to be used primarily by medical doctors.

I’m a professor with a science PhD from Yale. Can confirm. The only people in PhD circles in America who insist on using “Dr” are the ones who want to flaunt their degrees.

It is widely mocked amongst PhD holders.

I'm one of the Ph.D. PPs. This is completely untrue--I've worked in an academic and other professional setting where people routinely refer to Ph.D.s as "Dr." in formal discourse, first contact emails, etc.

What's your field, science professor?

I'm one of the PPs too. The above is correct.
American universities rarely dwell on the Dr. title. Others may use it to refer to them, but self-confident PhD holders will almost never use it to describe themselves.
European academia is different.

Anyone with a PhD who refers to themselves as "Dr", or anyone who uses it when you wouldn't use "Mr" or "Ms", deserves mocking.

Not sure who you're familiar with in the press, but you don't hear about Dr. Jay Rosen or Dr. Noah Smith or Dr. Fareed Zakaria or Dr. Paul Krugman or Dr. Joseph Stiglitz.
(the fake "Doctor" Sebastian Gorka uses his in his twitter handle, the counterexample that proves the rule. Ha.)

The title, for non-clinician doctors, is almost always omitted unless the reference is very formal. It is certainly omitted in the headline of a DCUM thread.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"Dr"

Yeah, right

Come on. In your own professional setting, it's fine to use Dr. as a title when you've earned a doctorate in that field.

It's technically accurate but widely mocked among PHD holders. The title is widely understood to be used primarily by medical doctors.

I’m a professor with a science PhD from Yale. Can confirm. The only people in PhD circles in America who insist on using “Dr” are the ones who want to flaunt their degrees.

It is widely mocked amongst PhD holders.

I'm one of the Ph.D. PPs. This is completely untrue--I've worked in an academic and other professional setting where people routinely refer to Ph.D.s as "Dr." in formal discourse, first contact emails, etc.

What's your field, science professor?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"Dr"

Yeah, right

Come on. In your own professional setting, it's fine to use Dr. as a title when you've earned a doctorate in that field.

It's technically accurate but widely mocked among PHD holders. The title is widely understood to be used primarily by medical doctors.

I’m a professor with a science PhD from Yale. Can confirm. The only people in PhD circles in America who insist on using “Dr” are the ones who want to flaunt their degrees.

It is widely mocked amongst PhD holders.

Did you all just start paying attention?

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Anonymous wrote:Dr. Chapman was not interim anymore. She had been made permanent shortly after the new Chancellor was confirmed. You can be interim for one full year.

So her resignation is a vote of no-confidence in the new regime?

And the cards start to fall... none of this builds confidence.

Anonymous wrote:Dr. Chapman was not interim anymore. She had been made permanent shortly after the new Chancellor was confirmed. You can be interim for one full year.

So her resignation is a vote of no-confidence in the new regime?

Dr. Chapman was not interim anymore. She had been made permanent shortly after the new Chancellor was confirmed. You can be interim for one full year.

Anonymous wrote:What is this about?

How long had she been "interim?" My understanding is that, once you are made "interim," they have one year to either hire you or move on to someone else. I think there are quite a few Central Office people who need a resolution to their "interim" status soon-ish.

Anonymous wrote:She was at the recent JO Wilson community meeting (see other thread) and she seemed to be the most reasonable member of the leadership team. The rest were using jargon, refusing to acknowledge parents and seemed oblivious to very obvious parent concerns... I wonder if it had anything to do with it.... if she was in charge of Aileen Murphy who is the IS for the JO Wilson Cluster, I wouldn't be surprised if that was connected. Murphy is trouble.

Not your thread J.O. Folks. Be gone

Anonymous wrote:Medical doctors mocking Ph.D.s for calling themselves doctor will eventually find places where the eyerolls will get slapped off their faces, to mix metaphors. My federal research agency, has a whole lotta doctors without medical degrees and I am not seeing a lot of eyerolls at physics, genetics, biology, or math Ph.D's, and the same respect the Ed.D.

This.