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Friends in academia, I have a question for you. What does the "accountability check-in cycle" look like for university-funded research?
Particularly, in the humanities, and particularly for tenured faculty.
I'm developing a novel which will feature a character in this situation. The character is tenured, an "old friend of the department chair," let's say, and also chronically ill and bed-bound to the point that he can't actually conduct the research. He has a non-tenured person conducting the research on his behalf. The research project has been in "very little progress mode" for years now, with continual extensions because the tenured lead is an old friend of the department chair.
I'm wondering how long this sort of thing could go on without much success before the department would pull the plug. (Now, this is also a "fantasy world," so I can sorta do whatever I want, but I want it to feel vaguely realistic for anyone who knows about these things.)
Any thoughts? Thank you!
Particularly, in the humanities, and particularly for tenured faculty.
I'm developing a novel which will feature a character in this situation. The character is tenured, an "old friend of the department chair," let's say, and also chronically ill and bed-bound to the point that he can't actually conduct the research. He has a non-tenured person conducting the research on his behalf. The research project has been in "very little progress mode" for years now, with continual extensions because the tenured lead is an old friend of the department chair.
I'm wondering how long this sort of thing could go on without much success before the department would pull the plug. (Now, this is also a "fantasy world," so I can sorta do whatever I want, but I want it to feel vaguely realistic for anyone who knows about these things.)
Any thoughts? Thank you!