Timeline for If tenured staff are virtually unsackable, why is the drive to find funding so strong?
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| Dec 11, 2012 at 1:43 | comment | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | @eykanal I've seen both cases in action. To add to aeismail's notes many departments make raises above the bare minimum COLA dependent on some kind of merit formula and/or voting by the rest of the department. Departments that use voting can get rid of an unloved but tenured colleague by denying him or her raises until they leave in frustration. In departments that use formulas you can give your detractors the finger by keeping the grants/awards/papers/books coming (I know a guy who's devoted the last 15 years to this approach). The smaller the #$%*heap the worse the politics. | |
| Dec 11, 2012 at 1:09 | comment | added | eykanal | This seems to me a rather overly cynical viewpoint. I definitely agree with JeffE that most do it because they enjoy doing research, and doing research costs money. | |
| Dec 10, 2012 at 21:33 | vote | accept | gerrit | ||
| Dec 10, 2012 at 20:36 | history | answered | aeismail | CC BY-SA 3.0 |