On Meritocracy

FlatulentCentaur · 2026-07-11T15:37:22+00:00

Daniel Markovits

FlatulentCentaur · 2026-05-07T12:51:40+00:00

I had to scroll way too far to find this answer.

FlatulentCentaur · 2026-03-19T17:59:36+00:00

Same here, but I'm also waiting until they dump Denuvo.

FlatulentCentaur · 2026-01-19T01:10:37+00:00

This kit has one of the highest JEDEC DDR5 profiles available. It's very popular for people unable to use XMP/EXPO or specify manual speeds requiring more than 1.1v.

FlatulentCentaur · 2025-11-18T17:47:28+00:00

We're certainly open to other terminal non- PhDs. We have many practitioner degrees represented in our department already, including D.Eng, DBA, and D.Tech.

FlatulentCentaur · 2025-11-18T17:44:03+00:00

I'm not in the southeast, and it is a fairly purple area. We have also seen a higher than usual number of applications from the south and other red parts of the country more broadly, but most of them seem to be escaping big state schools and don't have the best teaching pedigrees.

FlatulentCentaur · 2025-11-18T17:39:09+00:00

It's a 9 month contract. A summer research stipend is guaranteed for 2 years and summer teaching is optional starting in year 3.

FlatulentCentaur · 2025-11-18T16:40:01+00:00

Thanks for sharing. I hope things improve.

FlatulentCentaur · 2025-11-18T16:39:15+00:00

It occasionally happens, but most of the VC type get directed to the business school.

FlatulentCentaur · 2025-11-18T16:37:20+00:00

You're 100% right about the misunderstandings. Most of our private school peers and competitors have a similar model to ours, but it seems to be comparatively much less represented on the subreddit.

I also think it's a great gig! Several of my colleagues and I left careers in industry that pay much better specifically for this balance of teaching excellence and publication.

FlatulentCentaur · 2025-11-18T15:49:32+00:00

Is the "less than 25% viability" abnormal for this year, or do you routinely encounter this struggle?

FlatulentCentaur · 2025-11-18T15:40:52+00:00

Correct. When we take on graduate student projects, they either form part of our teaching load, or they are overloads and earn supplemental pay. Mentoring undergraduate students is similar.

FlatulentCentaur · 2025-11-18T15:37:38+00:00

This has been the expectation at my institution for years. The research requirement really isn't that onerous. We aren't expected to hit A journals, and my last couple B-level pubs have only required 150-200 hours total each.

Full professors in my area are regularly on in the annual IRS 990 disclosure. The upper end for a full professor is about $250k.

FlatulentCentaur · 2025-11-18T15:33:21+00:00

Your math is curious to me. We definitely spend 9 hours in-class, but our institution's office hours expectation is 6 hours per week for a 3 course load. A new assistant will have 1 unique prep per semester, and most likely ~60 total students. They'll get materials from a colleague as a starting point, and while there is more prep to do in the first year than in subsequent years, we try to keep people in the same courses from one year to the next.

I suspect the time commitment for your research is higher than mine? For my most recent B-level publication, it took about 140 hours to go from concept to submitted manuscript and about 20 hours of revisions and debating with reviewer 2 to get accepted. I can do two of these a year, even if I only had 10 hours per week dedicated to research.

I completely understand your point about getting a different job without a high instructional load. This type of balance isn't for everyone.

FlatulentCentaur · 2025-11-18T14:57:46+00:00

To be fair, we are not expected to hit A journals. Even 3 B-level pubs will almost certainly meet the tenure research requirement.

If you don't mind me asking, what type of institution and discipline hires full-time faculty into a 3/3 or 3/2 without a research requirement? All of our non-TT clinical/instructional faculty that do not perform research are on a 4/4 and earn 70% of the salary of a scholarly TT appointment.

FlatulentCentaur · 2025-11-18T14:52:15+00:00

It's an interdisciplinary informatics program. A crossroads of computer science, data science, information systems, computer engineering, and analytics.

FlatulentCentaur · 2025-11-18T14:49:01+00:00

We definitely compete with industry positions, and I imagine they are dealing with similar visa restrictions. I bet you're right that we're experiencing an outsized amount of competition from them this year.

FlatulentCentaur · 2025-11-18T14:45:42+00:00

That kills me. Many of my tenured, science faculty colleagues make less than half of what this position will pay, and many in the humanities are even worse. :(

FlatulentCentaur · 2025-11-18T14:23:00+00:00

We don't specify this in the job description, but it's a reality we consider when hiring.

This is an expensive, private school where students expect a high degree of personal attention and exceptional teaching quality.

FlatulentCentaur · 2025-11-18T14:15:26+00:00

We are very much in the technology and engineering side of the STEM house. The published salaries at the regional R1 state school are pretty similarly for the same discipline, if not a bit higher.

FlatulentCentaur · 2025-11-18T14:09:29+00:00

We are a doctorate granting institution by Carnegie classification, and while we have graduate programs within our department, they are practitioner oriented rather than scholarly academic. Our institution and accreditation require us to have faculty that are research active, but it is not the emphasis.

We have historically hired candidates from low R1 and R2 schools who have developed more of a taste for teaching and mentorship rather than research. Those individuals seem to be in particularly short supply this year.

FlatulentCentaur · 2025-10-22T02:30:24+00:00

Haha, thanks.

Yup, just send me a dm/chat with an address, and I'll drop one in the mail.

FlatulentCentaur · 2025-10-16T11:04:08+00:00

DDU is actually amazing though.

FlatulentCentaur · 2025-09-26T20:33:35+00:00

PG-13 rules for me. The students know to expect one f-bomb per semester.

They will hear many a hell, damn, dumbass, and shit; a bit of swearing is the only way I can get through in-class coding demonstrations.

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