She should be up for tenure like last year and yet only has 5 publications. How does this make any sense?
Did Berkeley really hire EH for methods?
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She should be up for tenure like last year and yet only has 5 publications. How does this make any sense?
she negotiated a 2 year maternity leave with UCLA, from my understanding. Wouldn't that stop the clock? or does the clock continue on maternity leave?
Sure maybe she delayed the clock. That still doesn’t explain the belief that she’ll put together a tenurable record.
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Lolz. Chwe is gonna get a rep person to replace her. Watch and see. Driving that department down. People running away from UCLA
UCLA, like UCSD, has outstanding undergraduate programs for at risk students. They mentor them for two years then send them to the main campus at Berkeley. A noble calling.
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UC has a pretty standard policy for that. The clock stops for each kid up to 2 kids (I believe). I could be wrong about the details. But it's specified in the policy.She should be up for tenure like last year and yet only has 5 publications. How does this make any sense?
she negotiated a 2 year maternity leave with UCLA, from my understanding. Wouldn't that stop the clock? or does the clock continue on maternity leave?
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Lolz. Chwe is gonna get a rep person to replace her. Watch and see. Driving that department down. People running away from UCLA
EH goes to Berkeley. Berkeley is terrible now!
EH is leaving UCLA. How could this happen? UCLA --> toilet.
Never stop, PSR.Your reading comprehension is poor. No wonder Maggie was concerned about assigning Wendy.
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Berkeley grad here. I loved being a grad student at Berkeley and enjoyed my time there, but our methods program was beyond a joke and I feel personally very fortunate to have had access to the resources of such a great institution that can offer enterprising students great training outside of the department.
There is a certain disdain/aloofness that the methods faculty held toward all political science students and this kind of hiring, among others, amplifies this problem tremendously. I love political science and got a PhD in the subject to pursue the study of politics.
Instead, what I and many of my cohort members at Berkeley experienced was mockery and marginalization by third rate statisticians who loathed us. This is the Berkeley way, sadly and it seems as if it will continue.
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All true but in your time at least they were active scholars and good at their jobs.
Berkeley grad here. I loved being a grad student at Berkeley and enjoyed my time there, but our methods program was beyond a joke and I feel personally very fortunate to have had access to the resources of such a great institution that can offer enterprising students great training outside of the department.
There is a certain disdain/aloofness that the methods faculty held toward all political science students and this kind of hiring, among others, amplifies this problem tremendously. I love political science and got a PhD in the subject to pursue the study of politics.
Instead, what I and many of my cohort members at Berkeley experienced was mockery and marginalization by third rate statisticians who loathed us. This is the Berkeley way, sadly and it seems as if it will continue. -
A tenurable record is whatever the power to be want it to be.This is esp. true in the Methods Field, but really in all fields. I say this without any reference to this scholar's merits, or whether UCLA or Berkeley is the best or worst or whatever. It's also true that someone hired as an advanced assistant very rarely fails tenure. They are a known commodity. Unless they take a whole 2nd clock, the coalition that hired them is likely to remain there etc.
This is a very basic point. But PSR will never learn this for some reason.She should be up for tenure like last year and yet only has 5 publications. How does this make any sense?
she negotiated a 2 year maternity leave with UCLA, from my understanding. Wouldn't that stop the clock? or does the clock continue on maternity leave?Sure maybe she delayed the clock. That still doesn’t explain the belief that she’ll put together a tenurable record.
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Berkeley grad here. I loved being a grad student at Berkeley and enjoyed my time there, but our methods program was beyond a joke and I feel personally very fortunate to have had access to the resources of such a great institution that can offer enterprising students great training outside of the department.
There is a certain disdain/aloofness that the methods faculty held toward all political science students and this kind of hiring, among others, amplifies this problem tremendously. I love political science and got a PhD in the subject to pursue the study of politics.
Instead, what I and many of my cohort members at Berkeley experienced was mockery and marginalization by third rate statisticians who loathed us. This is the Berkeley way, sadly and it seems as if it will continue.This +1000. TD is a first-rate methodologist and a very good instructor. But he is the only person in the department right now, and he's not interested in anything that isn't causal inference. If you are studying something not amenable to causal inference (anything in IR, REP work in American, institutional work, etc.), his attitude is that observational work can't tell us anything about the world, so why bother doing it? He's not dismissive so much as just uninterested. You go to the methods faculty with a non-CI question and they're just sort of like... "here's the Wooldrige econometrics textbook if you want to study it on your own, but I don't personally really believe most of that stuff...".
Basically the methodologists want to train grad students who come to specifically study with them and do causal inference, rather than having to teach students in the other subfields. When JS was at Berkeley enough grad students would come to work specifically with him on causal inference (like EH herself), and the methodologists could go off in their own little bubble and be statisticians working on topics vaguely related to political science. With him gone, and no methods-focused graduate students, they can't continue to not teach the methods the other faculty want their students to learn. So the EH hire makes a lot of sense to me. Meanwhile, you will still have nth year grad students who were never taught MLE.