That's why I said **nominal** load. Very few people teach that unless they really want to do so because they are not research active and don't want to do service. The GC is nominally 2/2.
GC load is 1/1
Is CUNY Grad Center a Soft Landing?
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It's a great gig, the GC works on a "unit" system unlike the rest of CUNY which works on hours. https://www.gc.cuny.edu/About-the-GC/Governance,-Policies,-Procedures/Detail?id=4933 I guess a lot of you are students and may not realize that dissertation advising counts as teaching or understand how much administrative work and research work faculty are reassigned to do. That is why there is a difference between the contractual workload and the "number of courses" that people teach.
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The fact that it's a great place to be a prof and a very selective dept doesn't mean they don't hire a lot among ex-NYU/Columbia APs. It is a soft landing, but for people in the top 1% of the discipline
if the the GC people were at the 1% of the discipline they would be denied tenure at other places.
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The fact that it's a great place to be a prof and a very selective dept doesn't mean they don't hire a lot among ex-NYU/Columbia APs. It is a soft landing, but for people in the top 1% of the discipline
if the the GC people were at the 1% of the discipline they would be denied tenure at other places.*would not
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The worst AP at Columbia is already in the top 1% of the profession
The fact that it's a great place to be a prof and a very selective dept doesn't mean they don't hire a lot among ex-NYU/Columbia APs. It is a soft landing, but for people in the top 1% of the discipline
if the the GC people were at the 1% of the discipline they would be denied tenure at other places.
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if the the GC people were at the 1% of the discipline they would be denied tenure at other places.
There are hundreds of new soc PhDs each year (probably 200-250 for T20 depts alone) and 5-6 spots at Columbia or better depts. That's more or less 1%.
I won't debate whether HRM APs are necessarily better than others, but my point is that the worst Columbia AP has still succeeded where the overwhelming majority of us will fail. And that getting any R1 job puts you in the top 10 or 20% of your peers.
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A position at the GC/CUNY is one of the best jobs in academia. Teaching 1/0 or 1/1 or 2/1 "at the most." Most distinguished professors are required to do 1/0 or 1/1 "at the most." Class size is small, fewer than 12 PhD students and no undergrads. Service is minimal. The rest of the time is for your own research. And there is tremendous freedom. Extremely collegial colleagues at an institution that is centrally located in NYC, so you can live anywhere in the tri-state area and accommodate partners and spouses, etc. from NJ, NY to the suburbs of Westchester and Long Island, all of this with an easy commute to the GC. In fact, there are many people who came to the GC AFTER they have been tenured at Columbia, Penn, Harvard GSE, Duke, UCLA, Northwestern etc. in Sociology and in related disciplines. But they prefer the GC over some of these other more elite places because it provides great work-life balances in an extremely prestigious program. For those who have been at some of the other departments named above, they all realize how toxic these departments are given the composition of faculty there, and many would rather not deal with such toxicity just because of the prestige. At some point in your life, I hope some of you will realize that status is not as important as we think.
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if the the GC people were at the 1% of the discipline they would be denied tenure at other places.
There are hundreds of new soc PhDs each year (probably 200-250 for T20 depts alone) and 5-6 spots at Columbia or better depts. That's more or less 1%.
I won't debate whether HRM APs are necessarily better than others, but my point is that the worst Columbia AP has still succeeded where the overwhelming majority of us will fail. And that getting any R1 job puts you in the top 10 or 20% of your peers.You have only succeeded if you get tenure. And your match doesn't add up, even given your own ridiculous numbers (T20 departments do not graduate anywhere near 200 PhDs per year).
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You have only succeeded if you get tenure.
That's your opinion. 99% of people not getting an AP job at Columbia or better is a fact
And your match doesn't add up, even given your own ridiculous numbers (T20 departments do not graduate anywhere near 200 PhDs per year).
That's 10 students/program, considering that there are 22-25 T20 depts. When you average out Berkeley and Cornell, that's about right.
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You have only succeeded if you get tenure.
That's your opinion. 99% of people not getting an AP job at Columbia or better is a fact
And your match doesn't add up, even given your own ridiculous numbers (T20 departments do not graduate anywhere near 200 PhDs per year).
That's 10 students/program, considering that there are 22-25 T20 depts. When you average out Berkeley and Cornell, that's about right.That you have only succeeded if you get tenure is not an opinion but the basic fact of US academia.
LOL @ "there are 22-25 T20 depts". As other poster said, your match doesn't add up. The 200 PhDs a year from T20 departments is not close to being right even if you "average out" some departments. Most T20 departments don't even have incoming cohorts of 10 people.
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You are embarrassing yourself, Carla.
The difference between AG and Carla is that AG has a real army of defenders—however misguided they might be—who stick up for her whenever she is mentioned on SJMR.
With CS, it is incredibly obvious that it’s just her sticking up for herself. It makes sense, though. She doesn’t do research, so she has lots of time on her hands.