John Jung

Exploring The Academic Maze

Legacy Lecture, Fall 2001

Veni, Vidi, Vici

Well, That’s It, Thanks for Coming

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John Jung

Exploring The Academic Maze

Legacy Lecture, Fall 2001

I came, I saw, I conqueredI Also Have A Longer Version…

I Know So Much I Don’t Know Where to Begin

One View Sees A Career As A Series of Decisions…

As Each Choice Limits The Next

We Must Choose Wisely…or Else Suffer

A Different View:A Career Is A Series of

‘Same Place, Same Time’ Events

• Our ‘Choices’ Are Affected By ‘Choices’ of Others At The Same Place At The Same Time

• They Are ‘Turning’, More Than ‘Choice’, Points

• Outcomes Can Be Unforeseen & Uncontrollable

• But, If We Are Alert, We Have Some Control

Choices of Others Converge At Point A

A

My First Turning Point

Go to Northwestern U?

Underwood’s ‘Invitation’

Family Ties Get A Job?

Broken Romance

My Second Turning Point

Go to LB State?

New PlaceWith Room to Grow

Family Ties Go

Elsewhere?Chicago Winters

My Third Turning Point

Stay at LB State?

Family Ties Accept Canadian Offer at

York?Sam Brown’s referral

Upset with LB Admin.

My Fourth Turning Point

Return to LB State?

A Better Fit At L. B. For My Goals

Aging Father & Family Ties

Stay In Canada?

Toronto Winters

My Fifth Turning Point

Accept NIAAA Offer?

Challenge vs. Fear of Failure

Mort Appley’s Endorsement

Decline NIAAA Offer?

Too Busy With Routine

My Sixth Turning Point

Apply for NIMH Grant?

Contact from Marlene DeRios

Heavy TeachingLoad

Not Apply?

Fear of Failure

A Review of My Turning Points

NU

Canada

NIAAA

CSUrevisited

NIMH

LBSC

The ‘What If’ Game

• If DeRios Not At NIMH, No COR Program

• If No NIAAA Role, No Contact With DeRios

• If Appley Not At York, No NIAAA Role

• If No Contact With Brown, Not Go to York U

• If No Ph.D., Not Get Job at Long Beach

• If Underwood Not At Cal, Not Go to Northwestern

An Eriksonian View of My Career

• Focus, So Far, Has Been Chronology & Structure:

(When, And Where, Have I Done What I’ve Done)

• Now, Using Erikson’s 8 Developmental Stages:

(What Function Did My Activities Serve?)

Identity vs. Role Confusion

• What To Teach And How To Do It?

• What To Research & How To Get It Done?

• How To Fulfill Administrative Duties?

• How To Balance These Tasks?

‘Experimental’ Teaching

• Student Autobiographies As Research Tools

• Playing It Again

• Random Acts of Classroom Learning

• ‘Intuitive’ Grading

Allow For Individual Differences

…What A Shame, Teaching Evaluations Were Great

Publishing That Weds Teaching To Research

The ‘Empirical Integrator’… Is Very Much In Great Demand (Underwood, 1957, p. 191)

• To Identify And Integrate The Valid Data• To Point Out Contradictions Among Data• To Guess Why Contradictions Exist• To Identify Gaps in The Empirical Base

Early Attempts As An ‘Empirical Integrator’

1968 1978

Expressing Doubts About Psychology

1971 1982

• Experimenter Expectancy Bias• Demand Characteristics Bias• Artificiality• Generalizability• Psychology As History• Ethical Issues

Administrative Efforts: Dept. Chair in the Stormy Early 70’s

• My Non-Negotiable Demand Platform

• Despite My Ploys…I Was Elected!

• My ‘System’ Still Survives To This Day

Intimacy vs. Isolation

• Promote Student Activities

• Build Collegial Bonds

• Develop University Community

All Work, and No Play, Makes For A Dull Faculty

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Joy of A Faculty Meeting, c. 1962

Going Around in Academic CirclesRichard Armour (1965)

• ... Scholars dispassionate and logical in articles for learned journals,

• Become passionate and illogical on departmental budgets,

• On promotion and tenure,

• And on a change in the wording of section 5, parag. 3, subparag. 2

• Of regulations regarding class attendance…

The Faculty Meeting That Never Was

We May As Well Adjourn…It’s Obvious This Meeting Isn’t Going to Settle Anything

Generativity vs. Stagnation

• Giving Back By Mentoring New Faculty

• Giving Back By Mentoring Students

• Reinventing Oneself

• College Level Grant, National Institute of Mental Health (1981- )• High School Level Grant, National Institute of Mental Health(1996- )

Mentoring Minority Scholars:NIMH-COR Program

McNair Scholars Program

Grant from U. S. Dept. of Education

to Educational Equity Services (1996- )

Integrity vs. Despair

• See The Glass As Half Full, Not Half Empty

• Bask In Reflected Glory

• Look for New Challenges

Yes, Old Dogs Can Learn New ‘Tricks’

1994 2001

A Few Lessons I Have Learned…

• Opportunities Can Be Turned Into Crises

• Nothing Stays The Same So Why Should You?

• Don’t Get On A Bus If It’s Going the Wrong Way

• Innovation And Evaluation Belong Together

• When The Phone Rings,

It May Be Opportunity Calling You…

END

So, In Closing…Let Me Say…

“In the end, the only sure criterion is to have fun, and I have had fun”

Tolman (1959, p. 152)