A common misconception about academic life is that once a professor has tenure, they can simply coast and have no incentive to do otherwise.
This might be true if salaries were guaranteed for 12 months. They rarely are. For example, the UW pays 2/3 of my salary. I raise the other 1/3 on grant funding, or I don't get paid.
So when I write a multiyear grant, I may have a year's salary riding on a proposal where to be funded I have to be ranked above 90% of other, similarly motivated faculty.
Carl T. Bergstrom /
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2023-08-05 05:06:53
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