tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3426136699582357118.post8342665429060993074..comments2015-10-16T00:36:40.619-05:00Comments on Vision 1920: Building a great physics departmentVision 1920http://www.blogger.com/profile/03471741151774307744noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3426136699582357118.post-78294179135689620662009-10-03T14:53:52.534-05:002009-10-03T14:53:52.534-05:00Please add to Vision 1920:
To become a high end ...Please add to Vision 1920: <br />To become a high end assisted living hospice facility for geriatic technologies, geriatric (near death) partnerships (Lexicon, Introgen, etc.), and geriatric faculty with big name titles, e.g. Hospice TAMUS. <br /><br />It's not a glamorous job, but a niche in today's welfare society.<br /><br />Tell the truth now? Were these individuals nicely forced out of their previous homes once time for retirement and hospice came, and dumped on A&M much as technologies, partnerships and other individuals of late? Were these individuals fully vetted by Search Committee?<br /><br />One consolation is that Hospice TAMU is system wide in its use of state development funds to support nice retirement home packages for geriatric title holders: http://governor.state.tx.us/news/press-release/11935.<br /><br />And has had stiff competition with its its other Vision 1920 competitor who seems to have solved parallel problems in filling poorly thought out building projects with young capable faculty--the University of Houston: http://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/archives/2009/02/age_discriminat.html<br />http://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/archives/2009/02/uh_gets_its_man.html<br /><br />It would be nice to trickle down a few of these taxpayers retirement bucks to youth who just might earn their Nobel or National Academy title while AT THE INSTITUTION. One compromise if Hospice TAMUS is to become the vision would be to bring these big name geriatric cases in as Assistant Professors with 6 years up or out probation like the rest of the working stiffs. HarveyUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12261565080783767346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3426136699582357118.post-12523043151644219542009-10-01T10:40:13.442-05:002009-10-01T10:40:13.442-05:00Good point, sort of. See the update.Good point, sort of. See the update.Vision 1920https://www.blogger.com/profile/03471741151774307744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3426136699582357118.post-24392850439314712252009-10-01T07:35:20.498-05:002009-10-01T07:35:20.498-05:00Texas A&M has three Nobel laureates. The third...Texas A&M has three Nobel laureates. The third is Bruce McCarl of Ag Economics, 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com