Talk:Sherilynn Black

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promotionalism and puffery

This articles gives several incorrect implications.

The role of Professor of Practice is not the same as Professor--it's a title given to someone who does not do research, but is in some sense a member of the faculty for the practical side of the subject--her her case academic academic. Therole of Assistant Professor of Practice is two levels down from that. If her position changes from 2012, Black was appointed to Assistant Professor of the Practice of Medical Education in the Ophthalmology and Clinical Science Department at Duke Universit to Assistant Professor of the Practice of Medical Education in the Department of Medical Education within Duke’s School of Medicine this is an administrative tranfer, not a promotion. Its the same level. She is not' a member of the Nartional Academy of Science, the reference given does not in fact indicate any connection at all, but her web page indicates some unspecified committee role I cannot verify she is member of the Socety of Neuroscience, but she is a member of their online programms committee Howard Hudges Gillam Fellow is not a Howard Hudgens Investigator, but an award for a doctoral student. ,

The roles of Assistant and Associate Vice Provost in most institutions is a minor administrative role, very different from that of Provost Giving lectures at meetings is something even the least notable of academics does.

becoming"Black became the first African American graduate student to pass the qualifying exam necessary to complete graduate school. 3]" is being a grad student passing a preliminary examination,. I don't see how this is not an accomplishment seaprate from gettign a degree.

She does not do research: she is an author on a total of one publication, apparently based on her postdoc work,

The puffery is not Wikipedia's. The efrror iher medicalschool which has published the misleading bio from which thewikipedia article was written