Timeline for How do professors choose their summer salary?
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| Aug 11, 2015 at 22:59 | comment | added | Bill Barth | Yeah, if our people weren't getting paid for a particular month, we'd have to furlough them and shut the computers down with no one around to maintain them. With faculty, and especially faculty whose stereotypical work style is reading papers and writing out theorems, you can work wherever and whenever you like whether you get paid for it or not. | |
| Aug 11, 2015 at 22:55 | comment | added | Anonymous Mathematician | That's a good point. I'm used to thinking of these outcomes as pretty similar, at least in pure mathematics, but I imagine it plays out differently in other fields. (Many people getting summer salary from NSF grants in pure mathematics don't have many other funding opportunities and aren't going to do extra teaching or consulting over the summer. If they get paid for less of the summer, then they'll end up doing the same research for less money.) | |
| Aug 11, 2015 at 22:34 | comment | added | Bill Barth | I don't think you can receive less per month worked, you can just work less months on the project if the budget gets cut. I believe you have to put your correct academic year salary. | |
| Aug 11, 2015 at 21:57 | history | answered | Anonymous Mathematician | CC BY-SA 3.0 |