1 year after being censured, he was elected chair of the department.
incredible. by default i don't trust anyone at chair level or above. the higher up they are, the more certain it is they are a purely opportunistic pod person / cannibal.
full disclosure, i work in the academy, though in a public service position rather than research or education. i am staff and my position is to launder the reputation of the institution to the community by fulfilling the institutions promises. naturally, my work/salary receives no monetary support from the university and i have to find external grants.
but what really chaps my ass is that, despite my decades of experience in the field, my BSc., my M.S., my graduate certificates, my management training and experience in the sector, my peer reviewed research publications, and my nationally awarded creative outreach work experience in multiple support disciplines, the institution and faculty treat me like i'm an unskilled peon because i don't have some bullshit PhD in some obscure garbage. whereas some fuckup faildouche who stuck around long enough that their committee gave them a phd to go away is automatically assumed to be a great manager and great at budgeting projects, worthy of a multiyear contract with hard funding for their own support staff, and, of course, significantly more money and job security. we're talking people under 40 who can't open a fucking pdf, but get to pretend like such basic job skills aren't necessary for them because they live in a palace of the mind. so they chew up and spit out underpaid staff to learn and do all the shit they can't be bothered to figure out.
one would imagine that, with the oversupply of graduate degrees compared to tenure tracked positions and the absolute glacial pageantry of hiring someone into a TT position, that they might be able to weed out the most useless assholes. but no. it's a coin toss as to whether they get a normal person or a toxic smooth brain.
Absolutely, and thank you for sharing your experience. It tracks perfectly with my understanding and experiences as well.
Also, a great point about staff, including soft money faculty / staff, being more competent than so many tenure-track folks but getting screwed by prestige shit. Universities are deeply corrupted by prestige-chasing, itself definitely tied up in the market to attract "the best" (often: the richest) students so that they can further finance a bunch of shit like big fancy buildings nobody asked for.
incredible. by default i don't trust anyone at chair level or above. the higher up they are, the more certain it is they are a purely opportunistic pod person / cannibal.
full disclosure, i work in the academy, though in a public service position rather than research or education. i am staff and my position is to launder the reputation of the institution to the community by fulfilling the institutions promises. naturally, my work/salary receives no monetary support from the university and i have to find external grants.
but what really chaps my ass is that, despite my decades of experience in the field, my BSc., my M.S., my graduate certificates, my management training and experience in the sector, my peer reviewed research publications, and my nationally awarded creative outreach work experience in multiple support disciplines, the institution and faculty treat me like i'm an unskilled peon because i don't have some bullshit PhD in some obscure garbage. whereas some fuckup faildouche who stuck around long enough that their committee gave them a phd to go away is automatically assumed to be a great manager and great at budgeting projects, worthy of a multiyear contract with hard funding for their own support staff, and, of course, significantly more money and job security. we're talking people under 40 who can't open a fucking pdf, but get to pretend like such basic job skills aren't necessary for them because they live in a palace of the mind. so they chew up and spit out underpaid staff to learn and do all the shit they can't be bothered to figure out.
one would imagine that, with the oversupply of graduate degrees compared to tenure tracked positions and the absolute glacial pageantry of hiring someone into a TT position, that they might be able to weed out the most useless assholes. but no. it's a coin toss as to whether they get a normal person or a toxic smooth brain.
Absolutely, and thank you for sharing your experience. It tracks perfectly with my understanding and experiences as well.
Also, a great point about staff, including soft money faculty / staff, being more competent than so many tenure-track folks but getting screwed by prestige shit. Universities are deeply corrupted by prestige-chasing, itself definitely tied up in the market to attract "the best" (often: the richest) students so that they can further finance a bunch of shit like big fancy buildings nobody asked for.