Dean Jones says:

"Well, I don't think I can budget $5,000 for software.  However, I can go up to $1,500. Will that be sufficient?

Here is my revised proposal:  

**ONE guaranteed trip to a conference each year for two years.  At each  conference you will agree to recruit and interview job candidates for our college, if there is a need.

** You also agree to spend ten hours in the summer recruiting high school seniors to our university.

**$1,500 for software to analyze data

**$15,000 for hardware (i.e., special computer processor and other equipment)

**A nine-month salary at the 74th percentile; in return you promise to develop an plan for an Executive Education program.  The written plan is due one year from today.

**One graduate research assistant for TWO calendar years

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

**You will serve on a summer task force to re-design the core curriculum in the college of business

**Five-day a week teaching schedule."

Your response:

1.  Yes, that amount will be sufficient.  However, I'd like to discuss my teaching schedule.  What if I teach two days a week in the Fall semester, and three days a week in the Spring?  That way, I can adjust to the new university in the Fall?  Recall that I am doing a lot of extra work during the following summer...   

2.  My research uses sophisticated multi-level analysis, structural equations modeling, and Artificial Intelligence-based content analysis.  I think I will need about $4,000 for the added software.