Actually I'd say that's all about right, but Harvard isn't in such great shape either. They can't hire people who would make an energetic core of the department.
Freezes, Furloughs etc.
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The 2nd-year Harvard grad students on PSJR need to get a life. Wait till you find out that these departments your trashing right now won't be begging you to come work for them when you go on the job market.
And wait until you, a first-year student at Yale or Princeton, find out that departments don't want to hire idiots like yourself who can't correctly use your/you're.
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^ Oh, I wouldn't worry to much about that if I were your/you're dude. Our most recent hire is astonishing bad at writing, but knows a hell of a lot of math and Stata programming. Between Word's grammar checker, lots of drafts, and lots of begging colleagues to edit his drafts he ends up with journal submissions that are ok, but his emails and memos are damn near unreadable. Seems to be the trend in the field.
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^ astonishingLY, not astonishing. I guess I'm getting dependent on grammar checker too.
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too
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i thought your post was ironical
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flyoverprof said:That leaves costs for units that don't raise revenue directly; teaching and basic research. These costs are covered by (1) tuition, (2) indirect costs on grants (3) state appropriation at roughly 40%, 10% 50%. That 17% percent state appropriation covers 50% of what most of us do here at the university.
This is the key point--since the vast majority of political science professors do not write enough grants to cover all of our costs to our employers, we are a part of "that" portion of the budget that is most vulnerable to state budget cuts. At my lowly comprehensive R2, most of the state funding goes to support the non-physical sciences part of the professoriate. The only thing that saves us from being cut is that our leadership has been willing to spread the damage into self-supporting areas of the budget and force them to take some hits along with us. If our leaders were less interested in supporting liberal arts, we would see massive position losses in the social sciences and humanities.
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Never thought that I'd consider myself "fortunate" to be at a private school so heavily dependent on obscene student tuition and fees. One year of no raises, and that was it. Plus, with so few other places hiring, we can definitely punch above our weight class. Two quality hires last year, two this year, likely three lines next year to meet teaching needs and replace retiring deadwood. Life is pretty sweet.
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^ AU?
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^ LOL good one
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^ I'm not sure I'm in on the joke....
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Nope. I'm not too familiar with AU, aside from the fact that, between the different colleges and schools, they seem to run a half-dozen ads per year.
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