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Do you know whether she was super keen on being promoted or are you just assuming she was being pushed down “for some reason”? (I have no idea, myself.)

• anon946 8y ago
  I have no idea either, but it's probably worth pointing out that, for better or worse, promotion to full will entail a certain degree of bean counting. Thus, there are a number of perfectly respectable ways to not meet those metrics. For example, someone who decides to tackle a very hard problem with very high risk of failure is likely to look less productive on paper.
  • nopinsight 8y ago
    Is the admin work for full professors that much more involved than for associate professors?
    • anon946 8y ago
      Not in my department, but I have no idea how representative it is.
    • joker3 8y ago
      I think it varies by department and university, but I know that one of the professors in my grad school department had to take on more committee work when she got promoted.
  • api 8y ago
    > someone who decides to tackle a very hard problem with very high risk of failure is likely to look less productive on paper. This is the central problem with today's academic research environment.
    • anon946 8y ago
      Agreed.
• plg 8y ago
  In many top universities in Canada, promotion to Full Professor doesn't confer any particular benefits. No salary raises (unless your Faculty are unionized, and you are below the mandated "floor" salary for Full Professor ... which is very unlikely, because it's so low, by design). Same workload. If anything it's worse because you might be asked to serve on more departmental and faculty committees.
  • fhood 8y ago
    Sure but it still means something to the rest of the community, which is important. My parents are professors, and I can assure you that there is at the least a psychological difference.
    • plg 8y ago
      Yes I agree