06-27-2006, 11:49 PM | #1 |
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Academic rank
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06-28-2006, 12:07 AM | #2 |
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I'd probably place grad students and undergrads as rank 0. No real benefits, no responsibilities other than showing up/doing research. Rank 1 for teacher's assistants or grads teaching to pay the bills. Rank 2 for not quite Profs, 3 for Profs, 4 for Dept Heads, 5 for head, dean and pres. Note how my typing uses more and more shorthand as I prepare to go to sleep...
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Adjunct professor probably shouldn't be defined as part of the academic hierarchy; it's more like a brevet rank or courtesy rank. In between assistant professor and professor is associate professor, which usually means you have tenure but are still junior to the top men in the department. I would suggest that the levels might be graduate assistant reader, lecturer, etc. assistant professor associate professor full professor department chair head of a school, faculty, division, etc. head of the university In a purely liberal arts college, as opposed to a university, the top guy would be rank 7, not rank 8. Bill Stoddard |
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06-29-2006, 05:47 AM | #5 |
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I really wouldn't give modern academics Rank at all. Rank is the ability to give orders to subordinates with pretty fair certainty that they'll be obeyed, even at significant inconvenience and even danger to the person being ordered about; it's about having more clout than the person with lower Rank, even outside of working hours. It's a real, 5-points-a-level game advantage.
Higher-level positions in an academic environment are just higher levels in a job. You get better pay, and a warm glow, and at high enough levels maybe some justification for buying a bit of Status. But you don't generally get squads of minions at your beck and call. Apart from anything else, academics tend to be very conscious of their employment rights and often quite independent-minded. Try pulling "rank" on one of them and you'll likely just be laughed at.
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