My professors had no idea how to work anywhere but an R1. By the time I got the Ph.D I had taken courses at five universities, but they were all R1 so that was the world I knew.
The standard advice for professors is about how to work at an R1 and I am constantly irritated at it since it only corresponds to R1s – take that kind of advice elsewhere and you could be ruined.
I am also irritated at the constant reiteration of this advice, since my assumption is that it is what we learned in graduate school, already.
Therefore I am always impressed and fascinated with assistant professors who do not follow this advice, who seem to know they are in a place where it does not apply.
However, I do always assume they know the standard advice, and they have considered closely their reasons for not following it.
Sometimes, more often than I would think, I am surprised to discover that they had not in fact been given it.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 