tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186457242428335144.post4456166144364214143..comments2024-03-28T00:36:13.790-07:00Comments on Volatile and Decentralized: Fair HarvardMatt Welshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04255792550910131960noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186457242428335144.post-52849000341076597332011-01-21T16:04:54.516-08:002011-01-21T16:04:54.516-08:00@Anonymous : DUDE -
First, you should understand...@Anonymous : DUDE - <br />First, you should understand that this blog is not the place to post such a stupid link. Before posting such a link, you should at least read the subject line of this blog-post. <br />Second, your idea is stupid - people can write a script to screw your ranking! - Use CAPTCHA Third, Crowd Computing is science - you should learn it before blindly applying it into the real life - Do not use it to choose best universities or girl/boy friends.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186457242428335144.post-36898123036303746502011-01-20T13:17:59.537-08:002011-01-20T13:17:59.537-08:00Off topic a bit, but your readers may be intereste...Off topic a bit, but your readers may be interested in this alternative crowdsourcing mechanism for ranking computer science departments (just started, modeled on similar ones for other disciplines).<br /><br />Vote here:<br /> http://www.allourideas.org/compscirankings<br /><br />Feel free to repost.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186457242428335144.post-15525270349929686822011-01-19T16:12:27.789-08:002011-01-19T16:12:27.789-08:00I guess the tenure clock means different things at...I guess the tenure clock means different things at different institutions. For example, in many, if not all Canadian Universities, tenure typically comes with a promotion to Associate professor. Typically, one applies for both at the end of his/her fifth year. The next step is the promotion to full professor, which is typically after minimum of six years. So, the whole process takes at least 11 years, if not more. So, given this Harvard, or other mentioned Universities' tenure (and promotion to full Professor) clock is much shorter. Of course, there is always a shortcut to both, given exceptional cases.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186457242428335144.post-15663470616249569642011-01-18T06:49:00.865-08:002011-01-18T06:49:00.865-08:00See http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/2010/06/how-to-...<i>See http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/2010/06/how-to-get-tenure-at-harvard.html for some background on Harvard's tenure process.</i><br /><br />I can imagine this exchange between an external faculty member and the tenure committee:<br /><br />Committee: 'ello there mate, so what do you reckon of our good old colleague, Matt?<br /><br />External bloke: 'ello there, why I think Matt's done pretty well for himself, I certainly do!<br /><br />Committee: Thank you very much! Your word's good enough as any!<br /><br /><br />I'm looking at my 'research' department and I see the politics in it as well, not just having its finger in the frostings but it has taken the entire cake and ran away over the hill. And I think: if we can't get the conferences to wean away from PC politics, if politics gets tangled in the academia, if it's prevalent in the industry as well, if someone like Matt would much rather spend time coding rather than get mired in administrative matters, and if our notion of a 'technical haven' is a foreign institution like MPI-SWS, what hope is there of US being any sort of world technological leader?<br /><br />I bet at this time, a lot of readers will be falling over themselves trying to say, "Poppycock! Bollocks! That's just not true because of XYZ!" Politics.<br /><br />When the Internet was first built, when it was unbeknownst to most, those involved were the true nerds who worked on something they believed in. It's a different picture now: there are so many people who want to be involved, to be a part of it, to be part of the 'digital revolution'. But unfortunately, not everyone can be 'the bestest of the bestest', but they want to be anyway. Since most of these people can't beat the true nerds with their brilliant minds, they resort to.... (drum roll) politics. By playing politics, they pull the best people down to their level, and beat them there. By playing politics, they create a role for themselves to play in a world which they really should have been kicked out of.<br /><br />It is a sad day for the Internet pioneers.Mr. TurkeyMannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186457242428335144.post-5772520457294501432011-01-13T21:51:01.228-08:002011-01-13T21:51:01.228-08:00See http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/2010/06/how-to-...See http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/2010/06/how-to-get-tenure-at-harvard.html for some background on Harvard's tenure process.<br /><br />My perception might be skewed, but most of my colleagues who started faculty jobs the same year as me -- and several who started AFTER me -- already had tenure at least a couple of years before I did. (In at least one of those cases the person was able to get an early tenure decision, not something that Harvard typically does.)<br /><br />Greg - true, but I still think tenure is the high order bit with regards to planning your life. In my case my wife was looking at her future career options, and we had to think about when to start a family - the limbo state makes those things harder to do. Full vs. associate doesn't have nearly as much impact on those decisions.Matt Welshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07077674014671176946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186457242428335144.post-87067327753755591412011-01-13T20:30:25.723-08:002011-01-13T20:30:25.723-08:00How about coming to Australia? No tenure stress!How about coming to Australia? No tenure stress!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186457242428335144.post-6706179624291401342011-01-13T19:11:22.794-08:002011-01-13T19:11:22.794-08:00Hmm, there's mention only of the length of the...Hmm, there's mention only of the length of the tenure clock, nothing about the amount of good work required, nor about the consistency of accomplishments across the years. For instance, do people have higher expectations of a new faculty at a university with longer clocks? How does the tenure criteria vary from university to university? How does one gauge one's progress through the years? I'm sure readers interested in applying for faculty positions would want to know.<br /><br />And now I must flee before my nemesis, Mr Anonymousman, shows up and shoots me .Mr. Turkeymannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186457242428335144.post-38045224470734800722011-01-13T18:11:32.103-08:002011-01-13T18:11:32.103-08:00Many places have longer tenure clocks; e.g., Yale&...Many places have longer tenure clocks; e.g., Yale's nine-year clock; MIT's eight-year tenure clock (or when one reaches age 35), etc.<br /><br />Four or five year clocks sound very short to me -- the recommended norm by AAUP is seven years. UC normally tenures in the sixth or seventh years.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06763315334665152658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186457242428335144.post-46178148535267206232011-01-13T18:05:51.908-08:002011-01-13T18:05:51.908-08:00In a way, Harvard is shorter. That's because ...In a way, Harvard is shorter. That's because after a positive tenure decision, you are promoted to Full Professor.Greg Morrisetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14071364309433455218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186457242428335144.post-81641506602038146512011-01-13T13:05:40.916-08:002011-01-13T13:05:40.916-08:00CMU's is longer, but it may actually be a diff...CMU's is longer, but it may actually be a different beast because it's so long: I don't think that most of the faculty in CS here worry nearly as much about tenure because it's waaaay out on the horizon. For me, I figure it's going to be pretty clear one way or another by the time I'm up for tenure, and I can't operate in a non-sustainable overdrive for 9 years. My own choice has been to do my job from the start the way I hope to do it for the rest of my life, tenure or no tenure. I do know that some people here don't like that the tenure clock is so long - and I have to admit to a little bit of envy when more and more of my friends receive it - but I'm on the fence. It has some real upsides as well as some downsides.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com