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Let's discuss the absurdity of #academia promotions. I'm going to do a thread of every level of 'approval' required for someone to get a promotion in #academia, just to point out how ridiculous & burdensome the process is.
But first, before the approvals, an extensive application must be written, that takes hrs & hrs of an academic's time. After that, it gets sent off for the first approval...
Approval 1: the head of school or dept. This is not a mere 'signing off'- the HoS/D must also complete an extensive amount of the form, incl apparently knowing all of the candidate's publication stats (thus, this ends up being done by the candidate anyway).
