Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: tenure track faculty position Keywords: humor, big joke Message-ID: <3455@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Date: 21 Jun 91 14:54:17 GMT References: <91168.172101FC137501@ysub.ysu.edu> <1991Jun20.040659.833@gtephx.UUCP> <1991Jun21.101640.7478@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY Lines: 17 In article <1991Jun21.101640.7478@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> thomson@hub.toronto.edu (Brian Thomson) writes: | Hey, I'm in another country, and even *I* know that American colleges | expect their faculty to attract research funds to make up the other | three months of salary. At most of these places, if you try taking | 3 month holidays every summer your job will probably be advertised on the | net again in a very short time. Depends on the school, I guess. I live near a college, and lots of profs are doing other stuff this summer. And friends who live in VT indicate that a reasonable number of profs come up for the whole summer. I realize these may be tenured people, but it's hard to tell. -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) GE Corp R&D Center, Information Systems Operation, tech support group Moderator comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 386-users digest. "I admit I am predjudiced, I can't stand bigots." -me