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[quote=Anonymous]So many generalizations.

There are great professors at R1s and crappy professors at R1s. Tenure is not a "pipe dream" for newly minted PhDs. There are good professors at regional universities and crappy professors at regional universities. There are bitter professors who wish they taught at Harvard and bitter professors who *do* teach at Harvard.

I know tenure is hard to get and it's also hard to get a TT position. But anecdotally, every single person from my 30 person cohort in political science (at a top R1 public school) who went into academia has received tenure. That's 15 people from a class that started in 2006. The rest of us either dropped out before completion or went into nonacademic jobs -- I think 20 of us received PhDs.  In the cohort that followed mine, most people have tenure and two are at Ivies.  The ones that are at Ivies are fantastic, award winning teachers. The ones that are at regional colleges are happy and successful as well.

But I have literally never heard anyone complain about their students being crappy at the regional colleges. In fact, my friends at those schools talk about their students with PRIDE. Because they're not assholes.

Nice guys finish first.

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