Professional Advancement -- Academic Style

This is a summary of offers for academic positions that were received over a 50-year career. Letters are available.


"No amount of having starred/
Atones for later disregard/
Or keeps the end from being hard."       Robert Frost


1963: Faculty position, University of California, Berkeley
1963: Faculty position, Colorado State University
1963: Faculty position, Cornell University
1963: Faculty position, Kent State University
1964: Faculty position, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
1964: Faculty position, University of Waterloo-Canada
1964: Faculty position, Antioch College
1964: Faculty position, University of Nebraska
1965: Faculty position, University of Wisconsin-Madison (visited,
          offer received and refused).
1965: Faculty Position, Dartmouth College
1965: Faculty position, University of Delaware
1965: Faculty position, University of Illinois-Urbana
1966: Faculty position, University of California-Santa Barbara
1966: Faculty position, State University of New York-Stony Brook (visited,
          offer received and refused).
1967: Faculty position, School of Education, Stanford University
1968: Faculty position, Vanderbilt University (visited, offer received
          and refused).
1968: Faculty position, Tufts University
1969: Chair, Illinois State University
1971: Chair, University of Maryland-College Park (visited, offer received
          and refused).
1971: Faculty position, Ohio State University
1971: Chair, University of Nebraska
1971: Chair, University of Missouri
1971: Chair, Kent State University
1971: Chair, Lehigh University
1971 Faculty position, Michigan State University
1971: Chair, State University of New York-Binghamton
1972: Faculty position, Boston University
1972: Chair, Tufts University
1972: Faculty position, Indiana University
1973: Faculty position, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
1973: Chair, University of Delaware
1973: Faculty position, University of Maryland-College Park
1973: Chair, University of Utah
1979: Chair, Florida State University
1980: Chair, Michigan State University (Carolyn visited, offer received
          and refused).
1981: Dean, College of Liberal Arts, University of Kansas
1982: Chair, University of South Florida


CONCLUSION: After all of the above, we remained at Purdue for 50 years. WHY? It was the age of nepotism in higher education. All offers refused were because RP and CCP could not be on the faculty in the same department; the positions offered were in sociology and something else. Purdue was alone at the time for not having a nepotism rule. So much for conservatism at Purdue!