The Cranky Professor

Maybe metaphorically? I was just listening to this earlier in the week!

Is this a site for medievalists with ennui? Io non fumo mai, ma voglio bevere spesso. I'm afraid my French is being devoured by my endeavors to learn Italian. My promotion to full professor was aggravated by a sociologist who never had the guts to finished his doctorate, but saner (?) administrative heads prevailed. My dept. here is so small that the entire College of Arts and Sciences gets to vote on tenure and promotion, often with sadly misinformed results. Grazie per un sito divertenti.
Ciao!

One of the things I HATE about SLAC is that (besides there being no real tenure), is that there is no voting on tenure equivalent by the faculty, and that the uni-wide committee has ultimate power to decide, rather than the people in one's College.

We have a unionized faculty here, but they made the decision to have the faculty vote on promotion to full because they thought they'd be more fair and informed than admin. However, what happened is that the most insecure and resentful among the faculty work against the recommendations of a candidate's department, even if it is unanimous (as in my case). The idea before this change was that admin should make the big promotion decisions so that the faculty could act as one in support of the candidate. Now, the admin has faculty doing the work of breaking the union for them because petty resentments about recognition, status, and comparative salaries breeds all this ugliness. A uni-wide committee making hiring/retention decisions? Scary!