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163 Notes 1. All names of interviewees are pseudonyms. 2. Our sample includes only campuses in which faculty are represented by collective bargaining units (virtually all public institutions of higher education in the Northeast are unionized). It may well be that shared governance works differently on nonunionized campuses, but we believe that the dynamics are similar. 3. We examined all discussion topics regarding job searches posted as of May 5, 2008. Because postings remain on the web for an extended period of time, we were able to examine postings from an entire hiring cycle. 4. scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/AcademicJobSearch, accessed 6 May 2008. 5. chronicle.com/forums/index.php, accessed 5 May 2008. 6. chronicle.com/forums/index.php/topic,43629.0.html, accessed 5 May 2008. 7. chronicle.com/forums/index.php/topic,35310.0.html, accessed 6 May 2008. 8. From the Preparing Future Faculty website, preparing-faculty.org, accessed 26 August 2011. 9. On one campus we interviewed, faculty were at one time prohibited from using university photocopy machines (or the university copy shop) for tenure and promotion materials. The cost of photocopying up to twenty copies of their lengthy portfolios—one for each of the committee members—was substantial. As one can imagine, to fail to achieve tenure after such expense (emotional and financial) easily leaves candidates bitter. 10. By “low-consensus fields,” Del Favero means faculty trained in the liberal arts and social sciences. 11. The comparison with the worst-paid faculty, however, and especially with adjunct faculty, who may make only $3,000–$4,000 per course, is instructive. And we fully acknowledge the extraordinarily high pay of some executives. 12. We know that for many students the academic experience is only a small piece—for some the smallest—of their college experience. Still, we argue that the department figures substantially in the academic part of their experience. 164 Divided Conversations 13. We borrow the phrase “it’s lowly at the top” from Jay Mathews, “It’s Lowly at the Top: What Became of the Great College Presidents,” Washington Post, June 10, 2001, B1, cited in Rhode 2006, 101. ...

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