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On 8/19/2011 11:07 PM, Aaron T. Dossey wrote:
Was it about unethical hiring practices like spousal hirings,
nepotism, etc.? These are RAMPANT in Academia.
I have no serious problem with spousal fires, because it means that the
hire committee/dean/chair/ has basically concluded that hiring
Well I suppose everyone has a need to vent about the jobs that they didn't
get, and certainly some Federal hiring practices are arcane (of course no
less than those in industry or NGO's, gee whiz, no favoritism there), but to
say that spousal hiring is unethical is absurd, especially given that
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Just looking for work, and I discover this!?
I try to remember that my mind contains many parts...the part that creates
logical constructs and
analyzes systems is just one of the parts, not the whole thing. It cannot
provide the solution to
survival by itself.
Our minds, our systems, and
Maintaining the quality of one's marriage, personal life, sexual
relationships, etc. is not an employer's, University's, Department's,
the tax-payer's (for public institutions and those who receive
government grants/funds) or even society's responsibility. The stake
holders here are not just
Viewing things from a Manichean perspective isn't going to contribute to
constructive discussion of important issues on this list, but I'd love to
see your evidence that spousal hires have any impact whatsoever on the
fruits of intellectual pursuit at Universities. Please provide some data
to
Yeah, the claim that spousal hires are unethical is ludicrous. I'd
love to know what ethical precept it violates.
On the other hand, spousal hires conform to the family values our
nation so loudly proclaims. Given that, a spousal hire policy would
seem more ethical than policies that
Do you believe in evolution?
So, let's take a specific amino acid in a protein as an example. If
there is a selective pressure to maintain a tyrosine at position 37 (ie:
the most important thing is the relationship that the candidates being
considered for a position is their relationship to
I'm not sure if everyone is aware, but there is also what is called a
shared position. Basically, the school hires the married pair and
they share the opening. They each share teach responsibilities (and
the salary) and both must make tenure or neither does. It is
virtually impossible to know
On 8/20/2011 11:46 AM, Aaron T. Dossey wrote:
Maintaining the quality of one's marriage, personal life, sexual
relationships, etc. is not an employer's, University's, Department's,
the tax-payer's (for public institutions and those who receive
government grants/funds) or even society's
Selective pressure operates on the phenotype and success of failure
depends on overall fitness -- a balance between competing selective
pressures. A weakness in one characteristic is often compensated for by
strengths elsewhere.
In this case, the institution would get more loyalty,
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It's easy to rail against those who demand higher ethical standards when
one benefits personally from lax ethical practices.
Personal interests like but my wife/child/friend wants a job too!
should not be a consideration of any hiring entity. Where does it end?
Is it ok for a chair and
On 8/20/2011 1:05 PM, Aaron T. Dossey wrote:
Do you believe in evolution?
Yes, and evolution by means of natural selection predicts that the best
adapted individual has the best change of surviving. It does not predict
what the best adaptation is. If a man has a special good way of scoring
Excessive celebrity worship in science is a related, but different
problem.
Consider the alternative that I bet never occurred to the hiring
officials: They could have also decided that it was arrogant for this
star to insist that the institution hire their spouse (or child, or
friend,
Would it be Climate of scepticism: US newspaper coverage of the scienceof
climate change published by L. Antilla in Global Environmental Change in 2005?
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Arkansas State University
Department of Biological Sciences
870-972-3194
From:
I think it's telling that the only people, at least is this dialogue,
who use words like ludicrous and absurd and resort to personally
attacking someone's character (note the whole lesson on how not to
live one's life as a bitter wretch) are those proponents of spousal
hire. Using such words and
First of all, most spousal hires that I've seen get new, specially created
positions. They're not outcompeting or displacing anyone. Second, you're
assuming that the primary hire has a lab that their spouse can use. But what
if the primary hire is a historian or mathematician and their spouse is
Oh, so only single people can contribute to this discussion? I've seen
a lot more hyperbole in this discussion coming from the anti-spousal
hire side. I've seen more confusing of terms (nepotism is hiring of
your relatives, not offering a job to an unrelated candidate and his or
her partner)
I disagree with you. Universities have to make the choices that are best
for them. If spousal hires would be so detrimental as your examples
suggest, they would not do them, but reality is that they work well. In
the case I am talking about, the department got extra money for the
additional
On 8/20/2011 11:32 AM, Aaron T. Dossey wrote:
Personal interests like but my wife/child/friend wants a job too!
should not be a consideration of any hiring entity.
I think it should be. You do not want your new faculty member leave
after two years for a place closer to her partner. After she
Honestly, with all due respect to Mr. Dossey, do you believe in economics?
It seems to me, in my very humble opinion, that universities exist to MAKE
MONEY. They take cuts of grants received, pay grad students a fairly minimal
wage for teaching responsibilities, and often try to cater to
I have found this publication to be very useful during my academic career.
It was written by a Nobelaureate. I'm not sure how much of it is good advice
in all situations, but at least it gives you something to think about.
here is a link to it on Google Books:
All:
It seems to me that, with respect to this issue and the one that spawned
(npi) it, that there are two distinct realms, ethics and rules. Ethics are
social mores that one does out of conscience and recognition of equity, of a
recognition that we are all variations of the same thing, while
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