Barack Obama

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568924&forum_id=2#47922559)

Before that, he served as a professor and director of the International Development program at the School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University. Previously, he was Omer L. and Nancy Hirst Professor of Public Policy at the School of Public Policy at George Mason University.[6]

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568924&forum_id=2#47922571)

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/fixing-failed-states-9780195398618

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568924&forum_id=2#47922580)

I also know there are tons of famous "thinkers" who never smelled tenure. Like Sean Carroll.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568924&forum_id=2#47922594)

I could go further and point out that there's actually a bias within academia against people who write for popular audiences. But it could be a chicken and egg thing. Sean Carroll claims he was on tenure track at University of Chicago until he wrote popular books.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568924&forum_id=2#47922650)

The shit that's endowed by some old rich guy is whatever that rich guy wanted it to be. No one is telling a rich guy "we won't let you fund that position unless it's tenured."

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568924&forum_id=2#47922672)

"academia’s highest honor on exceptional members of our faculty"

https://www.med.upenn.edu/endowedprofessorships/

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568924&forum_id=2#47922686)

Endowed chair appointments are for fixed terms, usually no longer than five years, as set by the gift agreement. While renewal may be considered, there is no guarantee and the university can choose not to renew for any reason. Faculty holding an endowed appointment can also be removed at any time by the university president.

Endowed chairs can be used to provide salary support and resources for research and teaching. Up to 50% of the funding can be used for existing salary and benefits, and up to 25% can be used to increase salary and benefits above the normal range.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568924&forum_id=2#47922700)

True story: I knew this bitch who got a my master's while mixed up in a Christian cult. She ended up working for the National Endowment for Democracy, which at the time I didn't know what that was. I met up with her once on a lark and she said she was freaked out by some pro palestine people who were trying to push out her group. During this convo she casually mentioned knowing "Frank" said she talked to him all the time.

Also true fact: FF can't speak Japanese. The bitch I knew wasn't even Japanese but she could speak Japanese and he couldn't.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568924&forum_id=2#47923435)

On Fukuyama - who I have "met" - he is retarded and his "scholarship" is an embarrassment. With that said, he played the game and has a sinecure that gives him plenty of money for no requirements (classes, mentoring, etc.). It is a tradeoff that many professors would easily make, including the prestigious and legit Niall Ferguson.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568924&forum_id=2#47925065)

The only reason I ever paid any attention to Sean Carroll in the first place was because he was a "professor at Caltech." Then in one of his podcast episodes he announced that his contract with Caltech was ending. Like "oh btw I never had tenure, heheh." Then he digressed into an hour-long rant about how and why [he thinks] he was denied tenure at University of Chicago. He shit all over Villanova in that episode too. He said going there for undergrad really held him back because there were no other smart people for him to talk to at that school. He is really a bitter piece of shit, and a yuge fraud. To this day I'm embarrassed that I ever fell for his "professor at Caltech" shtick. I've vowed that I'll never let anyone fool me like that again. Nowadays I always check.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568924&forum_id=2#47925758)

But separately, he makes the very good point that every hour he spent writing that book was an hour not spent doing research for University of Chicago. What could UofC realistically expect him to do for them going forward if he wasn't giving them 100% of his effort when he was an associate prof?

Finally, it's not research. It's written for lay audiences and it doesn't impress anyone in the field. SC is also not a physicist and can't do actual physics research, really.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568924&forum_id=2#47925790)

I know you're being catty, and you know this, but I'll go ahead and say it anyway: a professional academic is someone who makes academia their PROFESSION, the same way that a HVAC tech makes it their PROFESSION to do HVAC stuff. These are people who have (or had) to publish or perish. They don't typically have some special endowment propping them up, but instead draw their salary from the university itself. If a university is paying you a salary to do academic work, you are a professional academic.

Academic work is not just teaching. Most academics are expected to convey knowledge somehow, but teaching is just one of many ways they can do that, and it's not what gets them tenure. What gets them tenure is RESEARCH.

Finally, RESEARCH is something Francis Fukuyama has never actually done. Instead he is presented as an "original thinker." Why would you ever ask him to research a fucking thing?

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568924&forum_id=2#47925730)

Look at the kind of writing that gets u a jerb at Yale w/NOTENUREFOREVER

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5568924&forum_id=2#47979479)