Thursday, September 14, 2006

Well, it is math, not English

The October issue of Notices of the American Mathematical Society arrived in my mailbox today, and the cover listed an article called "Tips for the Job Search," which I felt I should read without delay. There is naturally a section about having a webpage that offers the rather obvious advice that "a webpage with outdated information, broken links, or misspelling could work against you."

I soon realized this is a two-way street when I noticed that according to the AMS Employment Information in the Mathematical Sciences, the University of Marylad [sic] is hiring. They had a total of four postings, with two of them misspelling the name of the institution. Do I really want to work there?

1 Comments:

Blogger BrentKMoore said...

Wasn't it the University of Minnesota that misspelled Minnesota on their diplomas, only to have nobody catch it until a month after graduation. I think the same thing happened at the "Navel" academy

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