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Tenure!

By jrosenhouse on May 6, 2008.

Here at EvolutionBlog we're sometimes a bit slow with the routine maintenance. My blogroll over there has long been in need of a massive updating. My brief attempt to come up with a cool banner for the blog foundered on my general lack of motivation for such a project. And I still haven't gotten around to figuring out why my Chess links don't quite format properly.

But if you look carefully you'll notice one change I managed to get around to with all due speed. I received a letter today informing me that I am no longer expected merely to Assist the other professors, I am now entitled to Associate with them.

I got tenure! Yay! By my count it's been about fifteen years getting to this point. I started studying mathematics seriously in my last two years of college (a rather late start in this profession). Then it was five years of graduate school, three years as a post-doc in Kansas, and now five years at JMU. Pretty satisfying. Suddenly that obnoxious and contentless rejection letter I received a month ago on a paper the journal should have been honored to publish doesn't seem to sting so much. (I'll just patch it up and send it off to the next journal, where it will languish for ten months to a year. What do I care? It's not like I'm in any great hurry to publish anymore!)

So there you go. Guess now I can tell you what I really think...

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Congratulations!

(how's that beard coming along?)

By DrugMonkey (not verified) on 06 May 2008 #permalink

Congratulations! I am glad to see that JMU values and appreciates you. Way to go, dog!

By BobbyEarle (not verified) on 06 May 2008 #permalink

So when will they get around to updating the web site?

http://www.math.jmu.edu/faculty_staff/index.html#Rs

:)

now just wait'll you get your own students coming to you going "you know, you were my prof 20 years ago AND YOU'RE STILL HERE???"...which I can just about do to messers Hanson, Droms, Chiang, and Sochacki...

By Joe Shelby (not verified) on 06 May 2008 #permalink

Congratulations!

What do I care? It's not like I'm in any great hurry to publish anymore!

Don't forget about promotion to full professor ...

Congratulations. I remember getting the same letter more than 30 years ago, and remember how good it felt to know that the work had a payoff.

*delurk*
Congratulations!
Now you can blog more!

Now you get to serve on even more committees!

Welcome to the fraternity! I was wondering about that, but too afraid to ask. You will find it to be a cozy cocoon.

Congratulations-- I am sure it was well deserved.

And how did that celebration go? Are you still sober stiff? Who cares? You got tenure, that's all that matters. Great work!! Keep it up. It's going to a be long night at the other "mathematician's" blog! Gloating could never be better.

Congratulations. Lifetime job security is nice, but don't go too wild. They usually stick some clause in there about gross moral turpitude.

By Reginald Selkirk (not verified) on 06 May 2008 #permalink

Congratulations. Just don't turn into another Michael Behe.

Congrats! Next stop, full professor!

What's the difference between a tenured professor and a terrorist?
You can negotiate with a terrorist.

Congratulations, Jason! Happy to hear the good news.

Congrats Jason!

Very well done Prof!!! Hopefully you will now have more time to blog - we miss your great posts!

Just crossed that hurdle myself last year, so I can guess something of the blood alchohol level (or its personal, psychic equivalent) now coursing through you.

Congrats. Do what I didn't: kick back for a summer and really enjoy.

awesome. well done.

Congratulations!

(/lurk)

Congratulations.

(lurk)

Congrats! Now you can do a Behe and they'll still have to pay you. Maybe you could write a book on the advanced math hidden in the bible?

By Joe McCarthy (not verified) on 07 May 2008 #permalink

Congratulations!

Congratulations!

wow... good for you....now if they would only pay you....

Excellent news!

Your full initiation into the Cabal of Evil Evolutionsts will begin at midnight on the next new moon.

Please note that you must bring your own goat, although the Cabal will provide the chalice and ceremonial knife for the collection of its blood. Attached is a map, including adjacent parking, and instructions for proper sacrificial technique. In the event of inclement weather the goat blood will be warmed, and sinister black hooded cloaks will be provided.

Larry Moran: "Is this when we discover that you're really a closet creationist?"

I don't doubt that he's a closet creationist. I'm sure he believes that closets were created. :-)

Congratulations!

Hey right on.

I'm just some random lurker who stopped by your blog off some other link, left a comment for that Mr. Brendemuehl guy, and then got dissed hard by what I assume are some of your regular readers.

At any rate, I know nothing of your numbers but your words seem to come well too. Congrats on the tenure thing; surely it feels good to see something like that come to fruition.

So, good to meet you, and I apologize for all the mb on your recent 'expelled' thread. But there is some nonsense in the comments there from many sides.

Congratulations, Jason!

~David D.G.

By David D.G. (not verified) on 08 May 2008 #permalink

I will be boring but do want to add my congrats (like the spoof page that follows this post).

I have sent you a "Bill D."TM brand sweater in honor of tenure and your new blog :)

By stephen murphy (not verified) on 08 May 2008 #permalink

Congratulations!

And good luck on writing your book.

Salvador

By Salvador T. Cordova (not verified) on 08 May 2008 #permalink

You sound like an obmoxious little toad who has just (only just)passed muster with some outback, Nazi educational authority in No-wheres-ville despite yourself. Good luck and may yr. Gawd bless yah!

delurk: Congratulations; obviously I follow your blog, and enjoy it...lurk

By burredbrain (not verified) on 08 May 2008 #permalink