{"title":"We Can’t Ignore the Pandemic Fallout in Our Physics Classes","authors":"M. Wright","doi":"10.1119/5.0133979","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Our students are burnt out, and we need to pay attention.\n Last fall, I attended the 2022 Physics Congress of Sigma Pi Sigma and Society of Physics Students (SPS). (The conference is sometimes known as PhysCon.) It is the largest gathering of physics and astronomy undergraduate students in the world—there’s around 1000 of them there plus around 200 other physicists there as mentors, speakers, etc. During the opening session, these students were surveyed about the top issues affecting physics and astronomy departments today. Among options like careers and jobs, lack of research funding, and many other issues, burnout rose to the top by a large margin. The number two spot went to mental health concerns.","PeriodicalId":48709,"journal":{"name":"Physics Teacher","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Physics Teacher","FirstCategoryId":"95","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1119/5.0133979","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"EDUCATION, SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Our students are burnt out, and we need to pay attention.
Last fall, I attended the 2022 Physics Congress of Sigma Pi Sigma and Society of Physics Students (SPS). (The conference is sometimes known as PhysCon.) It is the largest gathering of physics and astronomy undergraduate students in the world—there’s around 1000 of them there plus around 200 other physicists there as mentors, speakers, etc. During the opening session, these students were surveyed about the top issues affecting physics and astronomy departments today. Among options like careers and jobs, lack of research funding, and many other issues, burnout rose to the top by a large margin. The number two spot went to mental health concerns.
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