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at it can be difficult for them to find their own way in the past month i ve been able to connect up some current recent students with former students who graduated about 5 years ago who actually have done or are doing the things that my current recent students want to do why is this so meaningful to me a few reasons i love that i maintain relationships with my former students to the extent that they are willing to mentor students i have right now i feel like that should be the norm rather than the exception but it isn t i care about what my former students are doing and have done and i care about keeping in touch with them and it turns out that the benefit of this is that i can call on those relationships to help the students with whom i am currently working even though that isn t why i maintained those relationships in the first place i might have good advice to give but i don t know all the things and i know that i don t know all the things it is so nice to be able to defer to people who know more than i know have more experience than i have and to indicate to my students that i am not the authority i feel like connecting up these people models the fact that it takes a village to find success in one s life you can t depend on one person to make your life happen you need lots of support so i m overwhelmed and i m tired and i m really freaking busy but i m really happy that the work that i do allows me to connect students that i ve taught across the years that is really and truly satisfying posted in teaching 3 comments so so tired october 7 2014 by dr crazy never in my time at my institution do i recall being busier or more ready for fall break though of course i could have repressed previous traumas i m going to visit my high school bff and to meet her new baby it will be a welcome respite from what has been one of the most obnoxiously busy fall semesters of my career today was a 12 hour day filled with grading teaching two classes meetings with three students a college assessment meeting and then a talk at a local library so i don t have much to say but i want to say some things anyway since i m such a crappy blogger these past few months everything s simply great with footloose though given both of our crazy schedules his crazier than mine if you can believe it we just don t have that much time together but maybe that is why we like each other so much ha anyway we both like each other we both like being together so now it s just a matter of carving out some more time for each other which is happening slowly but surely at least so far the promotion application wends its way through the levels of evaluation and it is at the halfway point in the process unanimous recommendation to promote from the full profs in my department and a positive recommendation from my chair as well all of this sounds like smooth sailing yes well not necessarily the unanimous recommendation from the full profs was perfunctory i compared letters with cf who is also going up and there were identical lame sentences and a lack of specificity in both in other words while they unanimously recommended me and her they didn t really make a case for either of us and remember two others were going up i suspect in spite of the differences in our records they got similarly bland unanimous support as well i do not believe those men read any part of my application beyond my cover letter and cv my chair s recommendation was better specific engaged and she did clearly explain why i should get the promotion this may make it seem like i have it in the bag but the next two levels are our new dean and our new provost and it is entirely unclear what they think the criteria are for full promotion also since this is their first time at the rodeo at our institution they may want to send a message with their decisions this go around at any rate so far so good but i m not counting my chickens before they hatch you know what sucks committee work you know what doesn t suck my students who are really so great this semester that i can t even stand it they are so engaged and so into everything we re doing they energize me for all of the irritating work i do outside of the classroom it occurs to me that i should probably check on that journal article that submitted august 1 hmmm maybe i ll give it another month and that s all i ve got folks i m too tired to have ideas or to write about them posted in uncategorized 3 comments the freaks come out at night september 21 2014 by dr crazy in the past 10 days or so i have heard from approximately 6 different guys whom i have dated some more seriously some less from out of the blue it is a truth universally acknowledged that a woman in possession of a steady suitor whom she apparently likes a great deal must be in want of the attention of tragic exes also as medusa noted there is a bit of a nip in the air so they may just be feeling frisky like zoo animals posted in uncategorized 3 comments so i ve submitted promotion materials september 15 2014 by dr crazy as of today it is out of my hands first things first this is totally a different feeling from applying for tenure and my first promotion after that i went into a bit of a tailspin which led me to reading stephenie meyer s twilight saga i know clearly i was in a deep dark place this feels 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 whe...