[GeorgeSaden]

I just have to question this whole “brilliant researcher” thing.

No. It makes perfect sense.

Remember that the modern university is a very egalitarian place and that you are tenured based mostly on the opinion of other faculty.

Just what do you think lessor researchers in charge of promotion at a government university are going to do to someone that has out-produced them?

[dr_lew]

Just what do you think lessor researchers in charge of promotion at a government university are going to do to someone that has out-produced them?

Pull out their guns and riddle her with bullets ?

[Brugmansian]

Might be they just happened to be there but two victims, Maria Ragland Davis and Adriel Johnson, were black. The third was the chair of the Department-- Gopi K. Podila of Indian heritage I assume. Of 5 non-whites in the 15 member department, 4 were shot. Two whites also.

http://www.uah.edu/biology/faculty.html

[Fitzy_888]

I agree. More and more professors are judged by their ability to access grant money. The college/University wants the professor to offset their salary and expenses with grant money, so that tuition might pay for anything but.

In the so called social sciences (where the hard left dwells) there are no expensive labs to maintain and expensive equipment to purchase. That puts all the more pressure of faculty members in the hard sciences where there are real expenses associated with REAL research.