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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The fix is simple: institutions need to provide better oversight and processes. It is easily done, I've personally got them through. 2/2
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Better training. Yep.
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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.2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
But we don't have tenure in the UK and still have problems.
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I've wanted to know more abt the UK system, eg accountability and outcomes due to how jobs are set up (not the awful publication metrics!).
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