Dean Jones says:

"Good. We have an agreement!

Here is the new contract package:

**TWO 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 68.5th percentile

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

**Three-day a week teaching schedule.

Welcome to our university!"

Critique:

This was an OK agreement overall... On the one hand you got a higher-than-average starting salary and you secured two trips per year instead of one, as the Dean initially offered.  Also, you got a reduced three-day-per-week teaching schedule.

On the other hand, your software and hardware remained at the  minimum levels, and teaching three summer sessions will seriously reduce the amount of time you have available for scholarly writing or other research activities.  You might want to try again, to see if you can negotiate an even better deal for yourself.