1. Usually, reference letters compare scholars at other institutions at roughly the same stage in their careers. 2. On fields in which a book is the standard contribution, usually impact and contribution is not well indicated by citations, for promotion...
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No one makes it on their own. Someone is guiding them, telling them the unwritten rules, preventing them from making grievous errors, supporting them at uncertain times. Institutions (departments, schools, universities) take responsibility for those they are promoting, making sure...
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In reflecting on high quality work I have seen, among students and researchers: Taste: It helps to have good taste, to choose problems that are fruitful, to modify projects so that they are more interesting, to focus on what matters....
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For those whose knowledge of city planning is mostly 20th century and English/American, this book will be helpful. P describes French thought about city design and planning during the 19th century, the point being that many of H's innovations were...
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I thought some more about our conversation: 1. Most faculty are not savvy about when to be promoted to full. They don't see it as a matter of building credibility, and of building the credibility of their dean. It...
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1. As I indicated, my experience of university committees suggests that they try to be fair and flexible. They are especially aware of issues of underrepresented groups, and try to be sure no problems creep in. 2. Imagine that you...
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http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/category/lens/ Since early March, the NY Times has been running a weekly series of photographic essays by Richard Perry (maybe only on its website). They focus on industries still alive in NYC. They are spectacular photographs, complementing the kind of...
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We have two ways of thinking about institutional and human behavior. The first assumes that we game the system and face countervailing rules and powers, and the task of institutional design is to make rules that work given this fact....
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Yesterday, Stephen Pincus of Yale, History, gave a talk to the Law/History seminar on the English Revolution of 1688. His point was that it was not a revolution of modernism vs. an entrenched past, but rather of two possible paths...
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1. Marginal cases are almost always poor. This is most apparent when one reads a good case, and then the difference is quite apparent. 2. We still don't know how it happens that long-time associate professors then lay golden eggs....
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