Dean Jones says:

"Yes, that what you say makes sense.  Because you are willing to do the extra summer work, I will agree to your request...and I'll even throw in a little extra for your software needs...to $1,650.

So we have an agreement:  

**ONE guaranteed trip to a conference each year for two years.  At each  conference you will agree to recruit and interview job candidates for our college, if there is a need.

**You also agree to spend ten hours in the summer recruiting high school seniors to our university.

**$1,650 for software to analyze data

**$15,000 for hardware (i.e., special computer processor and other equipment)

**A nine-month salary at the 74th percentile

**One graduate research assistant for TWO calendar years

**Required to teach four summer sessions, none of which count toward your teaching load

**You will serve on a summer task force to re-design the core curriculum in the college of business

**Two-day-a-week, 9 hour teaching schedule in the Fall semester and three-day-a-week, 9 hour teaching schedule the following the Spring semester."

CRITIQUE:

This was a pretty good deal for you:  You got a good salary and you got concessions from the Dean toward buying hardware and software.  You got a graduate research assistant and you got your five-day-a-week teaching schedule rearranged so that you can pursue your research.  However, you had to agree to a lot of summer service activities to get these favorable terms; thus, your summers will be quite "full."  Click here to play again to see if you can get an even better agreement.