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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is in the right direction. Too many dead wood faculties on the pay roll that do nothing. This will make the positions available to young rsearchers who are active on teaching and research. If you no longer produce results you come down. Always so in the industry, time for the same in academia. [/quote]

There really aren't that many "dead wood" faculty because if you don't produce research grants (which typically pay more for than your salary to student funding) you typically get an increased teaching, advising and service load.  So the people who are teaching 1 class a semester are doing that because they were research-productive enough to bring in enough money to buy out their courses, and their advisees are embedded in their lab.  And the only way to get pay increases other than the occasional most minor cost of living bumps are to get competitive offers from other universities that want you in really competitive national searches.

And don't tell me there aren't even more dead wood middle managers/upper level managers in industry!  Or CEOs who wreck a business but get a golden parachute.  This glorified version of "industry" is laughable.  At least in academia you have to provide direct service to students and have achieved a level of expertise formally recognized by both people in your college and experts in the field.  (I've worked in both academia and industry).[/quote]

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