Student "edition" found at {csi dot journalspace dot com}.

Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

Yesterday in our promotions board meeting, one faculty was again, for the second year in a row, not promoted despite having submitted his "papers" way in advance of the deadline set.

This is the one who believes, based on his part-time experience in another campus of the district, that the same level of requirements are needed year after year to get the commensurate increase in salary.

So what does he do? He copied several lab manuals from his previous school, put his name on a footnote on every page, and passed off one or two per year as he believes is needed to get his rank up.

What he didn't know, since he was just a young instructor in the other campus, is that the higher your faculty rank is, the more demanding the requirements become to get promoted to the next level.

As an associate professor, he is now required not just to have research output, but to present that research output in a reviewed conference.

Materials development, or manuals that are just rehashed and not even streamlined for the new equipment that the school has, just won't do anymore.

Doesn't he recall the other associate professors in his old school?

If he does, is it his belief that he is actually the same caliber as they are, when he is only in school at the minimum set time?

It's thankful that the administration has already realized he believes if he can get away with a certain lax behavior, he'd do it, and that his lecturing style, where he just sits at the teacher's table and riddles the topics with jokes, isn't suited for his rank.

Of course they still want to give him another chance, but this is definitely one example of a person rising to his level of incompetency at work.

And if he does pass this one, the next level won't be as easy.

Session 1711 has to show that he is doing more for the school. Class dismissed.