"Rejection of Reappointment" 2 (Reminiscence of a fool)

 

2 It was a few years after I arrived at this university and successfully passed the first reappointment examination. Every summer vacation was convened by the assistant professor's secretary.

I usually hear the term professor's association, but I knew the assistant professor's association for the first time when I came to this university.

Unlike the faculty group, it is a social gathering that has no influence on the decision-making of the university. However, since it is a very unusual university where there is no mechanism to promote from assistant professor to professor within the university, the assistant professors valued the assistant professor's association and always held an associate professor's association to exchange various opinions after the regular professor's association. Most of the time it was just a banquet.

　Therefore, even if I was absent, I didn't accept refusal to reappoint. However, the secretary's tone of "I want you to come" is unusual, so I decided to attend.
　It was decided that we would be surprised to find out an unexpected fact at the association of associate professors. (to be continued)
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