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  1. CW: tenure, academia, uspol

    Tenure to be eliminated at many public colleges in Oklahoma

    dailynous.com/2026/02/06/tenur

    (I know some other states are working on similar agendas, but is Oklahoma the first to do it by executive order?

    Or did Texas already do this?)

    #HigherEd #Academia #Tenure

  2. *guitar ballad music plays*
    Me applying for #tenure:
    YOU MAY CALL ME A DREAMER ! CAAAALL ME A FOOL! JUST A BLUE-EYED BELIEVER IN YOOOOU

    AAAAAND I'D DIIIE FOR THAT SOMEOOONE! IN THE BLIIIINK OF AN EEEYE SO TELL ME JUST TELL ME, JUST WHAT KIIINDA FOOOL AAAAAM I?

  3. It's only shortly past 8 in the morning, but I need to #vent.
    I just overheard a new #tenure track assistant #professor talk about how they got there.
    In a nutshell, they haven't left the department since their master studies and stumbled into the tenure process by accident.

    I am (kinda) happy for them, but I am also so incredibly fucking jealous!

    I have switched not only university but country after every degree/job, so by now I live in country number 5 since starting by studies.
    The longest I've been in the same country was during my #PhD plus pandemic and unemployment for over a year.

    Especially older #academics don't seem to understand this, because whenever I mention any of this I encounter completely blank stares. Note, I'm in a department where most senior staff is local and celebrating 15-35+ years at the same employer.

    I'm in my mid-30, I don't want to move every few years when my temporary contract ends.
    I want to be able to plan more than 1-2 years at a time.

    I absolutely love doing #research, but I hate so many aspects of #academic culture or what has been normalized over the years for #AcademicLife.
    I plan on staying in #academia despite of it.

    #Rant over, time to calm down and sip my tea.

    #PostDocLife #PhDLife #academicchatter #MyLifeAsAnAcademic #AcademicMastodon #tenuretrack

  4. How to avoid reading – and how to avoid finishing a book.
    👉 philosophics.blog?utm_source=m
    Whilst mired in adminstrivia, I happened upon The Intellectual Origins of Modernity – a favourite whipping boy (or girl, lest I come across as sexist).

    I asked ChatGPT to parse it for me, and it told me – despite it is well structured and written – to skip it.

    #books #reading #amwriting #technology #chatgpt #ai #critique #philosophy #history #modernity #society #origins Publishing #tenure #academia #blog

  5. On the one hand, I know that #academic institutions have changed and evolved.

    OTO(ther)H, I just found 3(!) new organizations that came online relatively recently to deal with "misalignment between traditional academic metrics for hiring, #tenure, and advancement" which has been a problem since the 1980's.

    (And we still can't deal with anything actually #interdisciplinary!)

    WTF!?

    #science #academics #AcademicChatter #bullshit #InstitutionalInertia #AcademicInstitutions #institutions

  6. Oh, how cool!
    "we introduce the Claims Network approach, which collects information about REIL [Research (R), Education (E), societal impact (I), and academic leadership (L) ] contributions by inviting researchers to post about them on the distributed Mastodon social media environment."

    link.springer.com/chapter/10.1

    "The Claims Network: Collecting Research, Education, Impact, and Leadership Claims on the Decentralized Web"

    by @hvdsomp

    #academicchatter #mastodon #tenure

  7. I was informed I made it. I'm to be awarded #tenure and promotion, effective August 1st. There are crappy things happening, though, like hiring freezes and such. I almost expect to hear they won't be able to give me the raise that comes with my promotion. I'm relieved I'll have tenure, but would still consider other job opportunities if something interesting came along. I applied to a San Diego position last year, but the search was canceled and the position was swept. #academia

  8. “Already, #Trump has threatened to pull #funding from #colleges that don’t purge #language he considers #woke. He’s demanded new oversight of certain regional studies depts. Next he could #ban, as #Florida has, 'political or social #activism.' He could weaken the protections provided by #tenure & #faculty #unions. I saw this happen on my campus, & I know the toll it took. If the Trump admin has its way, my experience could offer a preview of what’s coming for other #universities.”

    #dictatorship

  9. #Academia
    #HigherEd
    #Tenure
    @academicchatter

    Looks like my home state of #Indiana is going full maga bonkers on higher Ed. No thanks!

    Indiana budget bill curbs university faculty power, ties tenure to new ‘productivity’ reviews • Indiana Capital Chronicle
    indianacapitalchronicle.com/20

  10. @Satori

    Pfft, who gets to tell a tenured Professor when to go to bed? You should file a grievance.

    #tenure #professor #prof

  11. A case study at Shenzhen University concludes that the #university's 2016 up-or-out rule (after x years junior faculty must either get tenure or depart) "significantly boosted the quantity and quality of publications."
    sciencedirect.com/science/arti

    #Academia #Tenure #UpOrOut
    @academicchatter

  12. Folgende Beiträge finden Sie in dem Heft:

    Learning Agreement with Critical Friends als Pilotprojekt in der #Forschungsevaluation
    Autorinnen: Guiliana Sabbatini & Marlene Cermak

    #Agilisierung von Qualitätsmanagement –
    Ein Praxisbericht zur #Digitalisierung von #Tenure Track #Berufungsverfahren
    Autorin: Franziska Kurka

  13. Folgende Beiträge finden Sie in dem Heft:

    Learning Agreement with Critical Friends als Pilotprojekt in der #Forschungsevaluation
    Autorinnen: Guiliana Sabbatini & Marlene Cermak

    #Agilisierung von Qualitätsmanagement –
    Ein Praxisbericht zur #Digitalisierung von #Tenure Track #Berufungsverfahren
    Autorin: Franziska Kurka

  14. Racial bias can taint the academic tenure process—at one particular point
    Black and Hispanic professors fare worse when voters include colleagues who are less familiar with their work, new study finds

    #tenure #racialbias

    science.org/content/article/ra

  15. Just over 2 weeks left to apply for this wonderful tenure track position in my department!

    The opening is broadly oriented toward biodiversity, field ecology, conservation, mostly on aquatic ecosystems. It’s a 3 years tenure-track position with a high probability of receiving tenure.

    More information via:
    * Internal link in French: jobs.unamur.be/emploi.2024-10-
    * Or in English version: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/284

    #JobOpportunity #PhD #Ecology #Conservation #Belgium #tenure #WildlifeConservation

  16. [Illinois] WIU librarians won’t keep quiet about layoffs.
    “...it’s just wrong for students to not have the top quality, professional librarians that other students at other state public universities in this state are receiving,”
    #HigherEd #Libraries #Archives #AcademicLibraries #tenure
    tspr.org/tspr-local-news/2024-

  17. Louisiana State University administrators informed librarians their campuses would not hire any more tenure-track librarians and that those on the tenure track or with tenure would have one year to decide if they want to maintain their status and publish more often

    🔗 lailluminator.com/2024/08/20/l

    #LouisianaStateUniversity #LSU #LibraryLabor #LibraryWorkers #Tenure

  18. US #universities are nearly all in the red, financially.

    1. Yes, funding #publicEducation costs money

    2. Research shows increasing #tuition costs are overwhelmingly because of (a) state reductions in per-student financing and (b) #AdministrativeBloat

    Naturally, every upper administrator (and #university system) thinks the obvious fix is to cut #faculty, destroy #tenure, increase class sizes, remove majors, hire #adjuncts, and otherwise degrade academics--you know, the thing universities are about.

    MY RADICAL SUGGESTIONS:

    1. Fucking fund universities, you cowards

    2. If you need to cut costs, start with the things that don't contribute to academics, like (a) administrative costs, (b) sports programs, (c) police and other non-academic programs using resources

    3. Stop letting people in suits who know nothing about education and/or about business (and definitely about the ways universities and businesses are and are not similar) make the decisions

    #highered #economics

  19. 📣 Unique #job #opportunity: The #MPIEA invites applications for a #W2 (#tenure track) #Faculty Member (m/f/d) in the field of Imaging #Neuroscience, with a specialization in high-field (7T) #neuroimaging. Find out more at ae.mpg.de/jobs.

  20. Come work with me! My research unit at the University of Namur is hiring a #tenure track position in #ecology and #ecophysiology

    I'm happy to answer any questions about working here!

    jobs.unamur.be/emploi.2023-11-

    #AcademicJob #evolution #teaching

  21. On my way to what will hopefully be the last #faculty senate meeting of my life: a five-hour on-site retreat to push back on the #provost ’s proposals for the promotion & #tenure process. Namely he wants to weaken faculty control over the process.
    The best I can hope for is that I don’t get stabby.
    #professor #ProfessorLife #academia #AcademicMastodon