Re:Karen Uhlenbeck, Uniter of Geometry and Analysis, Wins Ab...
by BeetleB on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @12:09PM
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>It's the other way around. The faculty are paid to do research from grants they bring in, they are evaluated based on their research, and the university requires them to teach on the side.
Not true for most departments outside of engineering and some of the sciences, and not true for most math departments. Most faculty members in other departments get little to no grant funding. Math departments always have a small number of faculty members chasing grants, but the rest of them do not. Yet they still are evaluated based on research.
In my experience, the level of back stabbing in math departments is a lot lower precisely because of the lack of pressure to acquire grant money.
Not true for most departments outside of engineering and some of the sciences, and not true for most math departments. Most faculty members in other departments get little to no grant funding. Math departments always have a small number of faculty members chasing grants, but the rest of them do not. Yet they still are evaluated based on research.
In my experience, the level of back stabbing in math departments is a lot lower precisely because of the lack of pressure to acquire grant money.