How Joint Appointments Stall the Careers of Ethnic-Studies Professors

In 2004, Jeannette Jones landed a tenure-track job at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln — a joint appointment in the Institute for Ethnic Studies and the history department. She had her career all planned out: Teach. Write. Publish. Get tenure. Repeat until she became a full professor. But with tenure comes an increased service burden, and Jones’s dual appointment has left her with two departments to serve. The work has piled up.


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