I've been reading about a case where a member of a tenure committee had
a conflict of interest with the candidate being considered for tenure.
It brings up the idea that when you are first hired as an assistant
professor, you never know who will be on your tenure committee. So
brush up on your interpersonal skills, use diplomacy whenver possible,
and keep asking yourself this question: "Would I be ok if this person
were on my tenure committee?
The semester’s over. If you’re anything like the academics I coach, you feel like death warmed over. Those last stacks of grading got done on sheer will, determination and fumes. And this is before considering your writing deadlines, committee responsibilities, and other demands. You are suffering from Academic Exhaustion Syndrome. Academic Exhaustion Syndrome (an advanced, more scholarly state of burn out) is a state of emotional, and physical exhaustion caused by prolonged stress, ending with grading, over the course of the semester and academic year. As the stress continues, you begin to lose interest and motivation to work, you have fantasies of standing up and screaming in the middle of a meeting, and you wonder what temporary loss of reality testing made you decide to become an academic. This dreaded Syndrome can: Reduce your productivity and saps your energy Make you irritable and have thoughts of strangling an undergraduate Make you feel like you have nothing more to g
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