Dean Jones says:

"University policy prohibits using graduate students as 'graders'.  However, I can allocate funds for you to have a graduate student as a research assistant for one year."

Therefore, this is the contract package I'd like to offer you:

 **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)

**One graduate research assistant for one year

 **A nine-month salary at the 34th percentile

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

 **Three-days-a-week teaching schedule for Fall and two-days-a-week teaching schedule for the following Spring."

Your Response:

1.  It is good...but not quite good enough...Raise the salary to the 64th percentile and I will accept.

2.  For the 'Internet data scraping' that I plan to use the graduate student research assistant for, it would be great if I could have the student for a longer period of time.  Then, I could 'recoup my training investment' so to speak from the 'learning curve' the student encounters.  If I may be so bold, may I make a proposal?  How about four years with TWO graduate students who will overlap for one semester at the end of the second year?  Then the more experienced graduate student could train the new graduate student who will take his or her place... 

3.  OK; we have settled the issue of a graduate assistant.  Is there any possibility that I could get additional travel funds?  While I appreciate the 'one trip' you have allocated in your offer, most other schools are providing more travel to conferences.