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> with teaching as a secondary duty

Usually the top priorities at a research university are:

1. Fundraising. 2. Research (in support of 1)

In the humanities, tenure track positions usually only open up when someone dies or retires, assuming the slot is not also retired, and there will be hundreds of applicants for each position.

The academic pyramid is unsustainable since faculty usually supervise (and graduate) multiple Ph.D. students before dying or retiring.

But it is disappointing to hear that Yale's "tenure track" has a high failure rate. It seems like an incredible waste of people's lives.