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Executive Director, @Faculty_Network @UChicago | #highered #collaboration #faculty #dei | EdD @PennGSE | EdM @HGSE | BA Classics @UHouston | RTs ≠ Endorsements
Mar 13, 2022 9 tweets 3 min read
Negotiating a TT #faculty job offer or retention w/your chair or dean? It's a situation that systematically disadvantages women + BIPOC faculty. Here's what I learned after years of @coacheproject research about what's REALLY on the table (potentially). A🧵1/n #AcademicTwitter The @coacheproject Faculty Retention & Exit Study asks tenured + TT departures + retentions at R1s to list everything that was included, formally or informally, in their negotiations. Base salary was #1, but in the category of "other compensation" -- lots of discretion. 2/
Apr 4, 2020 22 tweets 12 min read
1/ I have some thoughts (and links) on the downstream consequences of #faculty hiring freezes, massive #adjunct / #NTT layoffs, loosened admissions standards + institutionalization of online/hybrid #teaching. Your thoughts? Bonus pts for links to research! 2/ At all but the most research-intensive institutions (and to an extent there, too), _fewer_ faculty will be teaching _more_ courses in _unfamiliar modes_ to more students who are _less prepared_ than typical for their colleges.