Tenure doesn't help you if you are dead - not funny, actually.
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Chad got to this first (cursed time zones), but I want to say a bit about the Inside Higher Ed article on the tumult in the Philosophy Department at the College of William & Mary that concerns, at least in part, how involved junior faculty should be in major departmental decisions:
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Tenure doesn't help you if you are dead - not funny, actually.
Only too true.
I've heard a few anecdotes of junior faculty killing themselves, but I haven't seen anything that suggests that the suicide rate among junior faculty is any different from the general population. Have you seen any statistics, or do you know if there is any information about this?
-Rob
Self-promotion here. More tenure advice at this link:
http://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2007/05/tenure-some-advice.html