tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3623899854668090474.post1899484841268067618..comments2023-05-28T06:36:18.771-07:00Comments on The Dataphiles: Boycotting assistant professorshipsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3623899854668090474.post-11727167013886863752008-02-17T13:52:00.000-08:002008-02-17T13:52:00.000-08:00Sadly, I doubt that your average assistant profess...Sadly, I doubt that your average assistant professor candidate has much leverage on their prospective departments over how much room the department gives its junior faculty to establish themselves. That being said, I do hear from my friends who've gone through the process recently that departments tend to vary quite a bit in how many administrative and teaching duties they require of their new hires. When I go through that process myself, I know that I'll be biased more favorably toward such departments. Of course, I'm also in the midst of trying to do a bit of an end-run around the whole notion of struggling to get one's career going simultaneous to getting one's teaching going. Postdoc stints don't seem all that common in Computer Science, but I think they can be an extremely valuable experience -- right now, my one and only responsibility is to produce good research. Everything else (the guest lecturing, the invited talks, the applying for grants, etc.) is optional, although I'm still trying to learn as much about them as I can in this relatively protected environment. That being said, I'm a little worried about the kind of overt and indirect pressure I'll receive once I start teaching for a living...Aaronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12880186056027494159noreply@blogger.com