What better system could replace #tenure? Criticisms like @postphdtheblog are resonant, reaching critical mass. http://www.allisonharbin.com/post-phd/2017/8/11/burn-it-down-emails-of-advisor-professor-abuse-expose-a-crisis-in-academia …
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A huge part. Nobody could be primary advisor until they had passes as secondary. Also, every student had a yearly *independent* check-up
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Thing I learned. 95% of issues are incompatibilities between advisor and student. Institutions need to identity, de-escalate, and solve them
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Some cases needed conciliation/mediation, some change in team/topic. Goal is to find a way forward everyone can accept, ideally embrace
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Improving advising is good, but doesn't address how nowadays
#tenure *reduces* academic vitality. Bc few decent jobs, ppl play it safe. -
It's more the process typically used to decide tenure. High stakes assessment and stupid metrics. We know that doesn't work ... 1/2
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... (Campbell's Law) and it's the same thing that breaks school education. 2/2
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The more academia pushes out non-aggressive principled people the more it attracts and retains the opposite kind of person.
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Totally. Value integrity high, get those people into leadership. Maybe this conversation can help that. Set the culture/values to aim for.
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