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[School] Denison University [Issue and Date] Communication: The media studies track has been a nightmare as far as tenure and promotion. While it looks like they may have found a solid tenurable set of personnel now, in the past decade more than seven different media studies professors have rotated out of this department. This has NOT been a problem with scholars of rhetoric, where the department has seen much better success in tenure and promotion. The problem seems to be lack of responsible mentoring, fit with a student culture who sees media studies as an "easy A" but are flustered when they earn a "B-" and then take it out on the professor (note, despite professing otherwise, tenure is largely based on "positive" student evals), and a curriculum that does not lead to any kind of media studies focus. People who have been pushed out the university are talented and have found themselves leading programs at both national and international levels. If you are a media studies scholar, be advised that this department has structural problems that they need to correct before you can be assured that they know what they are doing with these lines. History: Got an on-campus here two years ago. Full-day interview during which about half of the folks I was scheduled to talk with didn't even bother to show up; no access to food or liquids (no lie, I spent the 5 minutes I was given to prep before my job talk drinking water out of my palm in the women's bathroom); faculty member who was supposed to take me to the airport stopped off to go shopping and so I missed my flight (bright spot: at least I had time to eat at the airport, which i wouldn't have had otherwise-- that would've been a long freakin' 18 hours); never bothered to notify me I didn't get picked, found out from the wiki. Worst job interview experience EVER. [Department] 
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