Dean Jones says:
"Well, I DO want to support both teaching and research...
Hmmm...
We do have quite the demand for our business school course offerings that we need to address. Otherwise, we will have a lot of frustrated students!
What if we raise the maximum enrollment limits on your summer course offerings -- and we cut back the number of summer offerings from "three" to "two." There would still be an opportunity for students to take our course offerings during the summer. It would also free up some of your time so that you could do more writing.
Here is the new contract package I'd like to offer you:
**TWO graduate assistants for THREE YEARS; in return, you agree to supervise two undergraduate research projects each year over the next three 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, neither of which will count toward your teaching load.
**Three-day a week teaching schedule."
Your response:
1. Raise the salary to the 73rd percentile and you've got a deal!
2. Raise the software budget by $300 and you've got a deal!