So, I met the minimum standards for merit pay. I had to meet so many categories out of 2 sections and then the student evals counted in another. But the people that interviewed me couldn't tell me what merit pays means. They don't know how much $ it will be, if any. They can't tell me if it's a bonus or a salary increase. They can't tell me if I get a cost of living raise. They can't tell me if I'll get a gold star. But, I met minimum standards.
I'm all for having standards. I'm all for evals. I'm not about them being useless.
We have a job opening in our dept. After looking at 15+ files so far, 12 of them didn't read the ad. It's an embarrassment to the academic community, I think. Who should get a job teaching comp/linguistics/language, etc who can't read an ad and write a cover letter that fits their audience. Well, at least I know I didn't get my phd handed to me...I wonder about some of these folks, though.
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Who was applying for this job? Sounds awful.
Also, congrats on the merit pay, even if the details are murky at best.
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