Historically been very strong in strat, but made very few strong hires lately (besides Goffman who will likely leave), produces mediocre data monkeys, which are reflected in weak placements, and continues to pay Erik Olin Wright a salary. At best, they should be ranked around #15, below Texas.
What happened to Wisconsin?
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it does. those other places have made due essentially by becoming much more funded through non-state revenue sources. Wisc. was effected much more by the financial crisis and the political situation in the state, at least thats my two sense. Although I am speaking mainly about berkeley, UCLA, Michigan and Texas, don't know about the other two.
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That's ridiculous -- Wisconin's soc department (of which they have two) gets hit with cuts last because they're one of the highest ranked departments on campus.
And no, "Scott Walker" does not equal an explanation for anything and everything that's gone wrong in Wisconsin over the last few years -- show me that the Universty's funds have been cut. They just knocked down half of downtown Madison and built a slew of new dorms, shopping centers, an art museum, and so on.
Moreover, why would Wisconsin be disproportionately affected by the financial criss?
Wisconsin attracts, and then consistently loses, good faculty once they wake up to what its like to work with protest organizers who think they're scientists.
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Wisconsin attracts, and then consistently loses, good faculty once they wake up to what its like to work with protest organizers who think they're scientists.
Jesus wept. You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. Wisconsin has an inability to retain its successful younger faculty because they can get jobs elsewhere that pay more and involve fewer obligations. Plus the way it works is that everybody there is practically dared to get an outside offer because that's the only way to get a decent raise. If you force even your happy folks to get outside offers, they are going to find they like other places more than they were expecting. Even so, the various losses might have been bearable had they consistently been able to hire at the top of the market, but their packages haven't been competitive enough anymore to do that as often as they used to, especially now that they've lost a lot of their cachet.
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1925 is right. The whole WI system has been under a pay freeze for at least a decade, possibly going back to the late 90s. The only way to get a raise is to get an outside offer, and because everyone is bitter over the lack of raises at WI they often discover there are other schools where their colleagues will be happier. So not only is every department getting multiple outside offers a year, faculty are discovering there are places where not everyone is angry all the time. They've been hemorrhaging faculty in every department, and other Big Ten schools have treated Wisconsin like a farm team. As bad as it has been for sociology, the soc department historically has been one of the most stable departments on campus.
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Historically been very strong in strat, but made very few strong hires lately (besides Goffman who will likely leave), produces mediocre data monkeys, which are reflected in weak placements, and continues to pay Erik Olin Wright a salary. At best, they should be ranked around #15, below Texas.
this is a great post.