{"id":5599,"date":"2009-03-19T09:54:17","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T17:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=5599"},"modified":"2009-03-19T09:54:17","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T17:54:17","slug":"faculty-speed-dating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/03\/faculty-speed-dating\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Speed Dating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Higher Ed:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2009\/03\/19\/research\">Faculty Speed Dating<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For all of their big ideas, sometimes faculty are a bit like wallflowers at a high school dance; they need a little push to make the first move. So it\u2019s perhaps no surprise that the University of Southern California is using \u201cspeed dating\u201d techniques to encourage professors to work together across disciplines.<\/p>\n<p>Later this month, about 60 Southern California faculty will assemble at a long rectangular table, pitching research ideas to other faculty they may have never even met before. In the style of speed dating, faculty will move across the table in a round-robin fashion, taking just a few minutes to chat before moving on to talk to other faculty. After these brief sessions, organizers hope a special chemistry will develop between some of the participants, prompting the beginnings of a new research relationship. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Higher Ed: Faculty Speed Dating For all of their big ideas, sometimes faculty are a bit like wallflowers at a high school dance; they need a little push to make the first move. So it\u2019s perhaps no surprise that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/03\/faculty-speed-dating\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[211],"tags":[2721,1288924],"class_list":["post-5599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","tag-collaboration","tag-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5600,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5599\/revisions\/5600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}