Good news at last
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zubeneschamaliI suppose when the Dean of the college writes to personally congratulate me on achieving tenure, that makes it official?
:D :D :D :D :D :D :D
It's been a pretty sure thing since December, when the college voted on it and sent it up to the provost, and it's been an almost entirely sure thing since April, when I was invited to a job interview at a really good university, and the head of my department was able to find out for me that I was going to get approved for tenure here, and then it passed the provost's office in May anyway. (My university was also willing to give me a nice raise and abribe retention bonus if I promised not to go on the interview, which I thought was weird, so I went on the interview anyway even though I will now get neither the raise nor the bonus. Nor the job, since they preferred someone else, but I don't think I really want to move to State College right now anyway.)
It still hasn't been rubber-stamped by the Board of Trustees, but like I said, if the Dean's willing to congratulate me on it, I figure it's worth a public announcement. Which is such effing good timing, because with three major article and/or proposal rejections in the past month, I have been feeling pretty damn incompetent around here.
But now they have to keep me anyway. :D
:D :D :D :D :D :D :D
It's been a pretty sure thing since December, when the college voted on it and sent it up to the provost, and it's been an almost entirely sure thing since April, when I was invited to a job interview at a really good university, and the head of my department was able to find out for me that I was going to get approved for tenure here, and then it passed the provost's office in May anyway. (My university was also willing to give me a nice raise and a
It still hasn't been rubber-stamped by the Board of Trustees, but like I said, if the Dean's willing to congratulate me on it, I figure it's worth a public announcement. Which is such effing good timing, because with three major article and/or proposal rejections in the past month, I have been feeling pretty damn incompetent around here.
But now they have to keep me anyway. :D
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Date: 2012-06-29 20:43 (UTC)But boo for missing out on the raise and bonus :-\
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Date: 2012-07-01 02:45 (UTC)Is that the kind of thing that would happen in the "real world"? Receiving a raise and a bonus not to go on an interview?
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Date: 2012-07-01 02:47 (UTC);-)
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Date: 2012-06-29 21:34 (UTC)Awesome news!
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Date: 2012-06-29 21:34 (UTC)Congratulations.
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Date: 2012-06-30 01:23 (UTC)So good for you! That is BRILLIANT!
(Incidentally, when I read the first line of your post, I didn't see "the Dean" I just saw "Dean" and wondered when Dean had gone to college....)
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Date: 2012-07-01 02:49 (UTC)Heh, I wondered if anyone was going to misread that...
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Date: 2012-07-01 02:51 (UTC)It's weird...it's such an anti-climactic process that at this point, it's like, yeah, okay, yay. But I can already tell that I feel more confident about speaking up and being taken seriously, even if that's all in my head. So probably an 8. :)
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