Re:Academic success is either a crapshoot or a scam
by BeetleB on Sunday December 24, 2017 @11:31AM
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>Even more important, if you don't have several graduate students working for you during tenure (supplementing your research & teaching efforts), it's going to be hard to tenure there either.
I think you ignored his point altogether. I was at a top university. While it was common for an engineering professor to have between 5-10 students and 2 post docs, the folks in the social sciences like anthropology have much less (2-5 students is what I would guess). Someone has to pay them and those disciplines have little grant money.
Just checked my school's anthropology department: 25 faculty members and 75 graduate students - so roughly 3 per faculty member. Their Electrical engineering department? Almost 6 per faculty.
I think you ignored his point altogether. I was at a top university. While it was common for an engineering professor to have between 5-10 students and 2 post docs, the folks in the social sciences like anthropology have much less (2-5 students is what I would guess). Someone has to pay them and those disciplines have little grant money.
Just checked my school's anthropology department: 25 faculty members and 75 graduate students - so roughly 3 per faculty member. Their Electrical engineering department? Almost 6 per faculty.