Tenure

[annieover]

I sooo need to see this morning: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uwuO1h0kYU

Comments

[drmagoo]

Thankfully, tenure at schools like mine isn't quite that competitive, but still...entirely too close to home.

[annieover]

Watching that reminded me that my decision to stay on the outskirts of academic politics was not completely misguided.

[drmagoo]

It can certainly be a mess. The tenure process at Research I schools is very different than at the smaller private schools - not necessarily any less stressful, but different. Here, they really would have no problem if everyone that was hired got tenure, assuming they met the standards, which is helpful. Also, a lot of smaller schools don't subscribe to the publish or perish mentality, which removes some of the harder edges of competitiveness from everything.

[annieover]

I know it was vicious at my grad school, and many of the professors talked ugly about their colleagues to the grad students.

[drmagoo]

Yeah, I know some places where it's more of a zero-sum game. I wouldn't last long in that environment. I'm freaking out enough as it is.

[annieover]

Are you going for tenure this year?

[drmagoo]

Yep. 176 days until the application is due. Not that I'm obsessing or anything.

[jimbow8]

[annieover]

Just remember that regardless of what happens, there's no need to shoot anyone.

[drmagoo]

That's not on my things to do list. If it goes wrong, it's their loss, not mine.