If I do a lot of service can I over some semi-weak publication profile(about one book chapter or article per year).
Tenure denial blog
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This last post is so, so sad. People shouldn't be doing this to themselves. I'd rather get any basic 9-5 office job than subject myself to this. I've only got one life, and I won't be sacrificing it on the altar of political science. This lady should do the same.
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Maybe moving over to publishing helps her move on, the blog certainly doesn't seem to be doing that.
I started my career in a department where tenure denials were pretty frequent in large part because of dysfunction and rivalries. If you couldn't navigate the personalities, it didn't really matter how productive you were. Most of the people denied who went on to live happy and productive lives tended to put it behind them rather quickly. They either moved down the ladder, with tenure and lower publication standards or they went into something where they made a lot of money. The few who remained miserable perpetually relieved the experience. I hadn't read her twitter or blog in a long time but I fail to see how constantly beating yourself up is going to solve the problem.
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Maybe moving over to publishing helps her move on, the blog certainly doesn't seem to be doing that.
I started my career in a department where tenure denials were pretty frequent in large part because of dysfunction and rivalries. If you couldn't navigate the personalities, it didn't really matter how productive you were. Most of the people denied who went on to live happy and productive lives tended to put it behind them rather quickly. They either moved down the ladder, with tenure and lower publication standards or they went into something where they made a lot of money. The few who remained miserable perpetually relieved the experience. I hadn't read her twitter or blog in a long time but I fail to see how constantly beating yourself up is going to solve the problem.The 'publishing' she is getting into is letting other sad sacks post stories of injustice on her blog.
It ain't gonna help, Jem-Jen.
It ain't.
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This is quite sad, really:
Jennifer Diascro, PhD
Some Words Today
November 10, 2018
I’m having a lot of trouble writing these days. I don’t do much scholarship anymore; a little here and there, but not much since leaving the academy (proper). My other writing — about tenure — is draining in many ways; important, fulfilling, exhausting. The basics of that story are done, although there’s a lot more underneath it all. I’m just not feeing a lot of it at the moment, so not writing it. Over the summer I started designing a new website, a new blog thread, a book project, and a podcast. But suddenly it’s November and will be Thanksgiving before we know it. My husband pleads with me not to do this, jump ahead two weeks as if they didn’t happen. He wants — deserves — these two weeks. Too late; I’m already at the end of the Fall term with over 30 research papers to grade in three days before the winter holiday break. And high school for my first born and middle school for my second; new adventures, most of them wonderful, a few painful. For them too. I really like my kids; I would choose them. I don’t know what I’m doing half the time, though, hoping that my retirement will be enough to help them pay for the therapy that I’m sure they’ll need after being raised by me. So, I’m a bit paralyzed, intellectually … and physically, as luck would have it, as I lay on the sofa with ice on my back because old and doing stupid 30 year-old-person things. The Buckeyes look horrible. And democracy much worse. So I’m off to touch base with my California peeps because fire again. Then write postcards to voters because those words are discrete, meaningful, communal, doable. I’ll try to stay off Twitter but, really, who am I kidding. I rationalize by counting those words as part of my writing each day. What a cheater. But I’ve got 326 here, so that’s something.https://www.jenniferdiascrophd.com/failure-success-in-academia/2018/11/10/some-words-today
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LOL, I love how Jennifer Diascro is still under the delusion that her tenure denial was some kind of huge loss for academia, a harbinger of doom, and a symptom of some imagined "broken" culture in academia.
In reality, the only person who cares about her tenure denial is herself.
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I believe people are really better off being secure in knowing when and where they are not wanted. If I'm denied tenure in the future, I will treat it as an opportunity to move on. I can't imagine how incredibly awkward and uncomfortable it would be to get a tenure denial reversed following a lawsuit and find myself in an office down the hallway from people who made it clear that they didn't want me there. Not worth it.
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I believe people are really better off being secure in knowing when and where they are not wanted. If I'm denied tenure in the future, I will treat it as an opportunity to move on. I can't imagine how incredibly awkward and uncomfortable it would be to get a tenure denial reversed following a lawsuit and find myself in an office down the hallway from people who made it clear that they didn't want me there. Not worth it.
Depends on how you're denied.
If your record is stronger than previous ones and denied, you should fight hard for your dignity. Otherwise, you move down.
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Ask T heda. Obviously, it's worth if if you can do it (you are female or minority).
I believe people are really better off being secure in knowing when and where they are not wanted. If I'm denied tenure in the future, I will treat it as an opportunity to move on. I can't imagine how incredibly awkward and uncomfortable it would be to get a tenure denial reversed following a lawsuit and find myself in an office down the hallway from people who made it clear that they didn't want me there. Not worth it.
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Can you imagine what her husband has to deal with?The old man is CIA. Not sure if he's on the operations or the analysis side, but he is probably travelling, banging hot Russian agents, and chilling with the Bros at Langley.
He probably is cool with her as long as she deals with the kids. The nagging gets too bad? He just says he needs to go to work on something vital to Nat security. Instead he goes out and has a few beers.
Working CIA is nice. He always has an excuse and never is under pressure from the wife to disclose his actions.