Dean Jones says:

"Wonderful!  We have an agreement!    

 

Here is the new contract:

**ONE graduate assistant for TWO years.

**FOUR guaranteed trips to conferences 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 55th percentile

**Required to teach TWO summer sessions (each with high enrollment caps), neither of which count toward your teaching load

**Three-day a week teaching schedule."

 

Critique: 

This was a pretty good agreement for you -- especially getting to teach fewer classes in the summer, because that will free up your time for writing. 

REFLECT:  What tactics did you use to get this agreement? 

However, you didn't get anything higher than the minimum for software and hardware.  Still, those items are less important than the free time you got. 

You might want to try again to see if you can get an even better deal.