hey guys random news I can't tell my family (middle of night with time change) and can't tell anyone else (not officially signed yet) but I can't ****ing sleep and am idly browsing the forums and so you get to be among the first people to know
I got a new job and am moving back to my home city!
I'm Canadian but have been away from my home city for masters/phd and have been an assistant professor (teaching stream) in math in the US for a few years now. The new job is very nearly identical tenure track teaching focused faculty position at a decent university but most importantly where all my and my wife's family lives. We have a 1.5 year old now, and the pull to come home has been huge. I really love my current position and will sorely miss it, but just about all the things I love about it are present in the new position so it is pretty much purely additive (well except housing is expensive af in canada).
A couple on this forum may appreciate this, but a big part of my "story" these days is about embracing active learning in mathematics where we try to develop transferable reasoning skills and conceptual understanding as complimentary to procedural fluency in subjects like calculus. So at my current position I and another colleague really led a top to bottom reform of most of the gateway courses from learning objectives through to pedagogy....my sense of the new position is they mainly hired me because of this and aren't quite there yet but really want to move in this direction as well so I'm pretty pumped about that.
Ok enough of my ramblings