My friend is an English major and getting her teaching doctorate. In a top 50 school, What are the odds of converting an TA position into a full time associate professor position?

Have you ever had that anxiety dream where you suddenly realize you have to take the final exam in some course you’ve never attended? For professors, it works the other way around — you dream you’re giving a lecture for a class you know nothing about. That’s what it’s like for me whenever I teach…