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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Good luck at Hopkins (grad school anyway). I knew one person there who would barely make time for her doctoral thesis advisee.

Some faculty members at big research universities are selfish, desperate for tenure, do NOT like teaching and are under all sorts of pressures to do other things (like get grants, publish, etc).[/quote]

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Are you honestly debating the PP's last statement?

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It’s meaningless — as a statement re JHU specifically or R1s generally and it offers no basis of comparison. Some (blanks) at (blank) are selfish, desperate, do not like their jobs, and are under pressure to spend their time doing other things is true of many jobs/workplaces. And in the context of this thread, it’s not as if junior faculty at SLACs aren’t also under pressure to publish and get grants. [/quote]

The point is that the structure and incentives at SLACs are set up to reward excellent teaching. If you get a great education at a large research university, that's great, but that's not by design. Yes, junior faculty at SLACs, particularly the top ones, are under pressure to publish, but they also receive things like third year sabbaticals and reduced administrative responsibilities to balance teaching with research. At other SLACs, junior faculty have reduced (but not non-existent) publication requirements. At a typical research university, in order to earn tenure a professor. in my field would be required i to publish a book at a university press, and publish six peer-reviewed articles. At a SLAC, there may very well not be a book requirement, or a book would be used in place of six articles because the expectation is that you'd spend a lot of time teaching and mentoring students. That is NOT the case at research universities. You can get tenure as a terrible, terrible teacher if you publish enough. But if you are an amazing teacher who doesn't publish enough, you will not only not receive tenure, but you will be forced to leave the university. That is the harsh reality of teaching and publishing at higher education institutions.[/quote]

Do you work for a SLAC?  Just curious. [/quote]

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