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much less horrifying i mean sure i might get denied but i won t lose my job there are no real consequences to failure here while there would be consequences to not applying i e if you don t apply you can t get promoted also i do feel confident not certain but confident look i ll be the first person to tell you that there are weak spots in my application there are i had a couple of semesters where my course evaluations weren t fantastic did i ultimately address the things that caused those problems i did but how much weight will be given to those no idea and since we don t do peer evaluations of our teaching and we are never observed by our chair yeah that might mean something though one might argue that perhaps if we took teaching seriously enough to evaluate one another as professionals that i might have solved those problems more quickly and is my research as strong as i would in the platonic ideal of what a full professor s research profile should look like like for it to be no it isn t now i m not embarrassed by what i ve got given the rest of what i do i actually think it s strong but might these weak spots result in me getting denied yes on the other hand i m comfortable that when people review my application that they will understand why i applied maybe i m not a sure thing but i m not anything to sneeze at either and i know this i worked really hard on my application and i took it seriously i made the best possible case for myself that i could make which my dean emphasized was the most important thing that i should do when i spoke with her about it given some things i ve gathered from our new provost and dean i might have included too much but as i noted to another administrator whom i really really like i m in a rhetorically difficult position with this application 1 none of us actually know what this new dean and this new provost want since they ve never seen what our materials have looked like in the past 2 this is the first year with the new electronic submission process in our college the other colleges had a trial year last year but our old dean refused to allow any electronic submissions last year so within my department the evaluators have never seen something that looks like this and they might just be expecting what they used to get only uploaded vs in a binder given these two very different audiences i tried to split the difference and emphasize my narrative as the dean and provost have indicated they expect while at the same time including tons of evidence the old model was all about throwing everything in but the kitchen sink which i did not do but i included more evidence than i would have done if i were more sure that everybody was on the same page about the emphasize your narrative portion of things the way i figure it nobody is going to have a gun to their heads to click on all the things so this should make everybody happy i hope i know that working hard on the application isn t going to get me the promotion that s like students thinking that working hard means they should get an a but i also cared a lot about demonstrating that i realize what a big deal this is i mean sure all it really means is that i get an 8 raise that is a bigger deal than it should be in the financial climate of higher ed but still small potatoes but should i get it this is my third and final promotion of my career i don t want that to be something that i throw together it is something that should have gravity it is something that i should invest myself in earning not only in the work that i do but in the way that i present that work effort should be part of doing this i think even if it shouldn t be what gets you the promotion which i don t think it should be basically i believe that if you really deserve the promotion part of what deserving it means is realizing just how important this final promotion is and showing that in the care that you take with the application i know i m secretly a pollyanna whatever i ll cop to that now what will be interesting is how all of this plays out over the next three months as the various applications wind their way through the various levels in my department four people are applying this is an unheard of thing we currently have 6 people who are fully promoted all of them are men over the age of 50 one was promoted within the past decade and one we inherited when he lost an administrative position as far as i m aware only two of the others went up at the same time we are not a department that has actively mentored its faculty to aim toward full promotion we are a department of around 30 of that 30 only about 7 haven t been around long enough to be reasonably eligible to apply for full 5 of whom either just don t have tenure yet or only just got it last year so basically we are talking about 17 people who should be on track for promotion but who have not been mentored toward what they need to do to achieve it or encouraged to apply and when i asked for guidance about it i was actively discouraged from applying too soon or told that i would just know when the time was right now one person who is applying is cf and i know she s my friend and all but i expect that her chances are as good as mine or better while she doesn t have as good a publication record as i have she does have better grant stuff than i do and in service and teaching i feel like we are neck and neck i also know that she took her application very seriously then there s me and naturally i think that i am grand that s a joke by the way then there is another colleague who let s just say that there are some red flags with this other colleague but this colleague does do a good job of spinning accomplishments to seem like they are more meritorious than they really are so it is all about how far the evaluators dig into this colleague s accomplishments that said i know this colleague was working on the promotion application this summer so i m sure that the application itself will likely be decent then there is the last colleague whose application i actually saw a bit of today who began putting it together a week ago this colleague is confident because the materials speak for themselves and because this colleague believes that s he has support from one of the full profs this colleague did not consult with it about the new format and about best practices for putting together an electronic document of this type so with all of that being said i am done if i don t get it i ll have the majority of my shit together to reapply and i ll have feedback about what was missing if i do get it i can say everything in my brain all of the time well i won t but i could in non promotion news things with footloose progress apace we are going to the symphony on friday posted in uncategorized 10 comments week 4 everything will totally be better by october 1 september 10 2014 by dr crazy one grant application submitted check promotion materials approximately 75 complete and will certainly be done no later than monday check 4 stacks of things to grade not touched but soon two more grant apps one external one internal that must be done by oct 1 attempts at a personal life moving right along in fits and starts the good news is that it s ok that i m a workaholic the annoying news is that the reason that this is ok is that my current one true love is similarly a workaholic will we ever have time to see one another more than once a week i am hopeful but not optimistic a student who hates like hates in a way that is totally upsetting her james joyce s a portrait of the artist as a young man all i can say is that i am kind of proud that she s hating something even though it s on a syllabus because frankly she is a student who twists herself into knots to love anything a prof has assigned my colleagues my colleagues i can t even posted in uncategorized 6 comments achoo week 2 of what promises to be one hell of an academic year august 25 2014 by dr crazy i appear to have what i believe is a cold i believe that this is a cold and not allergies because footloose has reported a scratchy throat the appearance of which neatly coincides with the appearance of my congestion further two days prior to these happenings cc reported similar symptoms which i dismissed as allergies and we hung out so either we all have allergies or we all have an awful end of summer cold breathing out of one nostril it is not fun but so yes the semester is off to an interesting start teaching my classes are fabulous they are full of students which may not seem like something to brag about but given the situation of some of my colleagues this is something to brag about the students are enthusiastic and excited about the material and my return to a mwf schedule remains the best decision i ever made i am very excited about what i will accomplish in the classroom this semester and about what my students will accomplish research kind of on the back burner until mid september though i am going to try to get another article polished and submitted grant applications i m applying for two neh grants and i m applying for an internal grant too all of those deadlines will happen by october 1 promotion application i m applying for full promotion and that deadline is september 15 i figure i m about two thirds of the way done with putting all of that together and i should be done done by september 12 the process is tedious and exhausting and i am totally flying without a net since i ve had virtually no mentoring and since we are moving to an electronic format for the first time i m trying to convince myself it doesn t matter if i get it service and the institution this is where things get really interesting lots of big initiatives and big changes afloat at my institution none of this is a surprise though i fully expect many faculty to be shocked and affronted and for the rumor mill to go into overdrive with paranoid conspiracy theories we hired a new president two years ago and in that two years we have had a massive administrative turn over as is typical we also have a new strategic plan and we are coming up for our accreditation 5 year review and we are revamping our budget model which dates back to the 1970s and assessment is happening although most people outside of the colleges of business health professions and education seem to have been unaware that this was coming huh what planet have they been on and apparently we are also revisiting our general education program and i apparently am going to be the assessment guru of my college it looks like i am back in the thick of things in spite of my efforts to scale back over the past couple of years and to get the target off of my back indeed i feel like the target is large and red and has flashing lights whatever if i learned anything from my work on curriculum a few years ago i can handle a target on my back i will live to fight another day whatever this academic year holds i m not sure that others will be able to say the same posted in uncategorized 11 comments the year of 40 august 18 2014 by dr crazy so i am officially 40 now even though i started celebrating 3 weeks early and to my surprise i have been carded four times when attempting to purchase alcohol in that time and one of those times the young whippersnapper cashier at kroger actually disputed my id i said no i just had short hair then and he said i know this is you but there is no way you were born in 1974 i was thinking 1982 tops but more like 1985 i also have had a bunch of people randomly comment positively on how great i look i can only put it down to the fact that i am wearing heavy bangs and they cover my forehead wrinkles in other news professional things proceed apace i am totally overwhelmed and busy but all goes well and then there is the whole dating two guys thing footloose and the mailman remain in the picture and i ve been out on three dates a piece with them of those three dates per suitor i have cooked dinner for each once i think they are both great in equal and opposite ways one is very cool and he inspires me to be cooler one is very relaxed and he inspires me to be very relaxed those are just two examples who the fuck knows but if you would have told me that i would be dating two great guys and feeling great about my professional life and have a great crew of friends and feel like there are too many great things to do to the extent that i am exhausted though righteously so at 40 years old say when i was 38 i would not have believed you turns out 40 is the most fabulous age ever first day of school is tomorrow i should be asleep but alas i got totally off schedule over the summer the good news is my first class is at 11 am tomorrow and i got totally ready for day 1 and 2 when i went into the office on saturday random thing if you re not watching the witches of east end on lifetime and if you were a buffy fan you should be posted in uncategorized 2 comments older posts don t steal my writing plagiarism is for 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