Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!lll-winken!aunro!alberta!ubc-cs!uw-beaver!fluke!ssc-vax!carroll From: carroll@ssc-vax (Jeff Carroll) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: tenure track faculty position Keywords: humor, big joke Message-ID: <4177@ssc-bee.ssc-vax.UUCP> Date: 22 Jun 91 00:47:50 GMT References: <1991Jun21.101640.7478@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <3455@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Sender: news@ssc-vax.UUCP Reply-To: carroll@ssc-vax.UUCP (Jeff Carroll) Organization: Boeing Aerospace & Electronics Lines: 30 In article <3455@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes: >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. If you want a tenure-track job at Youngstown State, you probably want to teach or consult more than you want to publish and become famous. Thus you might decide to go fishing during the summer (unless the cost of living in eastern Ohio is a lot higher than in western Ohio). Or maybe you want to moonlight all the time. Either way I think it's safe to assume that the successful applicant for this job will not be concerned with building a resume that will eventually land him/her on the faculty at CMU or Stanford, and that the administration will expect him/her to be somewhat less prolific than, say, Knuth or Yourdon. -- Jeff Carroll carroll@ssc-vax.boeing.com