July 25, 2010
The Senior Professor: Deadwood or Iceberg?
"Deadwood Resentment Syndrome" is a real condition prevalent among academics—it just hasn't been clinically established yet.
In a typical case, a young language scholar might explain his bitterness toward the head of his promotion-and-tenure committee like this: "I'm better than him at everything he is judging me on. My teaching evaluations are higher than his, undergraduates flock to my classes, I get lots of doctoral advisees, I am publishing like crazy. He is deadwood
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