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Here's why it's usually a bad idea to promote assistant professors before the six-year mark

By PHILIP DREW

I'm not often surprised by a question from a faculty candidate during a campus interview, but yesterday was an exception.

My role as an academic administrator in the interview process is to talk about personnel actions —...

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