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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know anything about Amherst, but at a lot of schools there has been a tilt toward teaching (non tenure track) faculty members.

The tenure track faculty have the same pedigrees and publication expectations as before (often higher tenure standards, in fact) but they are a smaller portion of the faculty as a whole.[/quote]
These are tenure track faculty being discussed with really low publication records[/quote]

Having publications doesn't make one a better instructor. Do you want good teachers or just impressive research? It's hard to do both. [/quote]
The top LACs have always had both. So have the top universities. You shouldn't be a bad researcher as a Professor, unless you're at a community college. Amherst is a research-teaching expected load. You will get a 2/2 and be expected to release books, have a publication record, and work with students. [/quote]

If you want published books for a new faculty member, you're looking for someone who's adjuncted or postdoced for years after their PhD, not a new grad...because even for humanities and social studies scholars with minimal revisions to their dissertations, it takes a couple years to get to print! OTOH some colleges prefer to hire shiny new grads or "prestige postdocs" (e.g. Princeton, Michigan societies) who have a ton of potential and haven't disgraced themselves with non-TT jobs yet. Often a book contract is enough. Also, journal timelines in these fields can be awful compared to physical sciences - I submitted an article based on my MA research that didn't come out until three years later. Horrible for the CV.

I don't think it's fair to say someone who got their PhD two years ago is a "bad researcher" because they have a couple articles but their book isn't out yet, and I also think it's mean spirited to pick on individuals in an anonymous forum. And I'm not even in academia anymore, so I have no stake, I just don't like the direction of this thread. [/quote]

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