Dean Jones says:

"Good Point!  That seems like a reasonable request -- especially because software expenses come from the Information Technology (IT) budget!

OK...It looks like we have an agreement:

Here is the contract package:

**ONE guaranteed trip to a conference each year for two years

**$1,500 for software to analyze data

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

**A nine-month salary at the 55th percentile

**One graduate research assistant for THREE calendar years; in return, you agree to apply for external funding and you agree to list our university as your co-affiliation on any already-started projects.

**Required to teach Two summer sessions, neither of which counts toward your teaching load; each class will hold 70% more students as the normal summer session.

**Five-day a week teaching schedule.

Critique:

You got an above-average salary and a good allowance for both  hardware and software.  You also got one graduate student for three years.  However, your regular academic-year teaching schedule was not favorable.  You may wish to try again to see if you can get a more favorable agreement.