Dean Jones says, "Good!  We've agreed on all of the terms:

 

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

**$1,000 for software to analyze data

**$10,000 for hardware (i.e., special computer processor and other equipment)

**A nine-month salary at the 25th percentile

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

**Five-day-a-week teaching schedule.

**One graduate research assistant for one year.

**You can use multiple-choice tests to better accommodate your heavy teaching schedule.

 

Welcome to our university faculty!"

 

Critique:

This was not a very good deal for you.  Your salary was quite low, and your teaching load was high -- so high that it risks seriously interfering with your research program in the future.  You never negotiated an upper  limit on the number of students you will teach.  Agreeing to let you use multiple-choice tests didn't cost the Dean anything financially. You might want to try again to see if you can get a better deal.