When you buy a used car you assume that you are not being told the whole truth, and discount the price, as well as have a mechanic check it out. You may do the same with a home. Due...
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a. Whatever materials you send to the university committee and the provost, such as sample work, should be vetted by one of your faculty. Someone in the committee might actually read the materials!, and it there are problems your...
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Question: How did X get tenure, five years ago, when I did much more than X did and my tenure did not go through? Other versions of this question: x, y, z got tenure having done this much, with average...
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All the strong academics I know publish often, and in the strongest journals. They never tell me that a paper they wrote was not really good, so they decided not to submit it. They fix the paper, make it better,...
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Before you allow them to go forward with your promotion process, ask yourself: Do I have any grand slam papers, widely known and recognized? What is my contribution? Is it widely recognized? How do I compare with the top...
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An ideal dossier gives the reader a sense of the contributions, strengths, weaknesses, and the vulnerabilities of the contributions. There is a detailed discussion of the candidate's work, critical and appreciative, indicating problems or disagreements on the part of the...
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National primary and secondary educational systems tend to aim for partisan patriotism rather than scholarly depth and complexity. If you are lucky, you learn a rather more objective way of thinking in university, although in fact that is rare except...
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When you have the dossier put together, avoid the following: letters from advisor or other collaborators, except to tell us the value of her contribution (and put them in the second grouping); don't talk about that early paper that is...
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I have thought that the physical models were interesting ways of describing cities. I had some nice results in 1968, results that have taken me the subsequent 35 years to understand (two of my books). I did further work...
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I have been reading draft papers, before they are to be sent out to journals. Some observations: 1. By the end of the first manuscript page, it should be clear what the paper is about, and the nature of its...
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