TCU Dept is terrified of MH saying something nasty about them on Twitter.
Woman twitter boasting about tenure has 3 coauthored papers and 2 book chapters
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More “productive” than half of the old white deadwood you see around. Besides that, maybe her perspective and teaching is what the department wants. Who are you people kidding, nobody reads half the publications you seem to care so much about. Just accept that you don’t work in a field that has objective standards, you knew that when you went into the field. Sorry you did not get the position you think you are entitled.
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I'm at an R2 and this record would not get you tenured. We hire new assistants with records this good or better. Some of us outside the R1 circle are productive and take our jobs seriously, so why should we vote to give someone 100k annually for life so they can play Twitter warrior?
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It's unclear to me what people are saying is a mediocre record. Just to be clear: six articles and several book chapters and probably some articles in the works is not enough? In a time frame od 4.5 years after you finish your PhD, which really is 3.5 years after you finish because of having a baby? At TCU?
I don't know EF but you all sound unhinged to me. Feel free to criticize her Twitter persona, but that is separate from this record.
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I'm at an R2 and this record would not get you tenured. We hire new assistants with records this good or better. Some of us outside the R1 circle are productive and take our jobs seriously, so why should we vote to give someone 100k annually for life so they can play Twitter warrior?
How many TCU profs do you think are making $100K? I'd guess maybe 5% of them.
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It's unclear to me what people are saying is a mediocre record. Just to be clear: six articles and several book chapters and probably some articles in the works is not enough? In a time frame od 4.5 years after you finish your PhD, which really is 3.5 years after you finish because of having a baby? At TCU?
I don't know EF but you all sound unhinged to me. Feel free to criticize her Twitter persona, but that is separate from this record.It’s not mediocre. It’s sub-mediocre. Yes, even at TCU, which is not a bad university.
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More “productive” than half of the old white deadwood you see around. Besides that, maybe her perspective and teaching is what the department wants. Who are you people kidding, nobody reads half the publications you seem to care so much about. Just accept that you don’t work in a field that has objective standards, you knew that when you went into the field. Sorry you did not get the position you think you are entitled.
Agreed. She's middle of the road, mediocre, right around the median. Mediocre doesn't mean bad. She's just what you'd expect at a mediocre place like TCU. Good match.
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It's unclear to me what people are saying is a mediocre record. Just to be clear: six articles and several book chapters and probably some articles in the works is not enough? In a time frame od 4.5 years after you finish your PhD, which really is 3.5 years after you finish because of having a baby? At TCU?
I don't know EF but you all sound unhinged to me. Feel free to criticize her Twitter persona, but that is separate from this record.I guess it depends what you mean by mediocre. It's not a bad record. It's mediocre. And TCU isn't a bad place; it's mediocre. Nothing to see.
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It's unclear to me what people are saying is a mediocre record. Just to be clear: six articles and several book chapters and probably some articles in the works is not enough? In a time frame od 4.5 years after you finish your PhD, which really is 3.5 years after you finish because of having a baby? At TCU?
I don't know EF but you all sound unhinged to me. Feel free to criticize her Twitter persona, but that is separate from this record.It’s not mediocre. It’s sub-mediocre. Yes, even at TCU, which is not a bad university.
What do you think the expectations should be at a school like TCU? I think you're being ridiculous.
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It's unclear to me what people are saying is a mediocre record. Just to be clear: six articles and several book chapters and probably some articles in the works is not enough? In a time frame od 4.5 years after you finish your PhD, which really is 3.5 years after you finish because of having a baby? At TCU?
I don't know EF but you all sound unhinged to me. Feel free to criticize her Twitter persona, but that is separate from this record.
It’s not mediocre. It’s sub-mediocre. Yes, even at TCU, which is not a bad university.What do you think the expectations should be at a school like TCU? I think you're being ridiculous.
Six. I think one a year is a reasonable expectation at a university like TCU.
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TCU may not be an R1, but it's a 2-3 with small classes with quite a few resources for faculty, and teaching there isn't terribly challenging. (The students are at that 'goldilocks' level--good enough to do OK without a lot of handholding, but not elite-SLAC needy types.) With no mediocre-or-worse grad students sucking up your time, this is almost certainly a environment as or more conducive to research productivity than most low-ranked R1s.
I'm not going to question their tenure standards or decisions, but I suspect there are a lot of people more poorly placed or not placed at all who could have done a lot more with six years at TCU than what we're talking about here.