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From:   Randy Lecher                                                                                                                                     Next   Previous  
To:   Cassandra
Subject:  RE: Re: Potential Summer Funding 
Date:  19Dec02 1:56pm 
 
 
In order for a professor to get adjunct here you have to get on your  knees and
administer oral sex to three structural biologists and Dr. Siamang.  The Department
Chair gets to watch.  Other than that we can't even get our colleagues in this State
who can think and do circles around most of us considered.
 
It is deeply embarrassing to have the system work this way.  The "merit" committee
(headed by the DGS, whom I had to verbally eviscerate much to my later detriment
when it came time for my tenure/promotion evaluation!) had promised at the end of
last Spring Semester to work out the details of "adjuncting" people.  They
apparently have chosen to drop this.
 
There is some new membership on that committee coming up, however, so may be
it will be possible to lay the groundwork for getting someone like Donald or Mariah
listed, say, by 2009 or 2010 or so....
 
Me? Bitter?  Naw...
 
But the rest of this stuff looks interesting.  Is this the grant that they already have?
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cassandra
> Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 11:51 AM
> To: Randy Lecher
> Subject: Fwd: Re: Potential Summer Funding
> 
> 
> Randy,
> 
> I'm especially curious about how the "adjunct" thing works.  Is that
> possible?  What are the pros and cons? 
> 
> Cassandra
> 
> On 19 Dec 2002, Dr. Donald wrote:
> > Cassandra,
> >
> > Your research project sounds very good to me!  I'm attaching the proposal from
> > our last, partly successful, grant application.  This should
> > give you the basis to formulate something.  You can quote from it, and
> > cite it as a p.c. from me if you need to.  Note that in the listing of sites I
> > did not include materials at your University because at the time (this
> > was over three years ago) I'd had no contact with anyone there for several
> > years and did not yet know that Mildred & Randy were on staff or that the
> > Ancient Biomolecules program had been rejuvenated.
> >
> > I don't know if it would be of any help, but if you want us to be "officially"
> >  involved in this, you might ask Randy &/or Mildred about
> > having Mariah and/or me made adjuncts in your department.  We'd be willing.  
> > We do that here quite often and it can sometimes make things easier.
> >
> > Donald