Dean Jones says:

"I'm sorry, but we really need 'all hands on deck' teaching during the regular school year.  We have very high enrollment levels.  However, I appreciate where you are coming from, so I am prepared to make the following suggestion:  I'll write a note in your contract that explicitly authorizes you to give multiple-choice exams exclusively. 

Then, if a  performance review committee raises that as a concern in the future, you can point to that clause in your contract and you'll be OK.  [After all, not every faculty member likes multiple-choice tests, especially at a teaching-oriented university.]

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)

 **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.

**Has authorization to use multiple-choice tests exclusively."

Your Response:

1.  It is good...but not quite good enough...

2.  Great!  However, I will also need a graduate student...

3.  Most other universities are offering higher salaries than what you are offering.  I brought a printout of the salaries posted by a few other universities as well as the latest report of average salaries from the accreditation organization...All of these data are for newly-graduated doctoral students, like myself.