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Article: Uncle Wuffle's advice to the assistant professor.
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- PS: Political Science & Politics
- Article date:
- March 1, 1993
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1. At faculty meetings and elsewhere, assistant professors should be seen but not heard.
Wuffle says: "Assistant professor like turtle, what not stuck out can't be chopped off." The reason that assistant professors should not make waves and should defer to their senior colleagues is not that the latter are necessarily wiser and more knowledgeable than they. The reason is that these senior faculty have tenure and the assistant professor doesn't; even more importantly, they vote on the assistant professor's tenure case, and not conversely. You don't have to be a rocket scientist (or a rational choice modeler) to recognize that opposing the pet projects and favorite ...