Hey everyone,

Back again, but this time with a question that can be isolated from the current stuff I've been discussing and is hopefully a solid contribution.

Long story short, the hammer officially got dropped today at a meeting with the Dean, current graduate students, and faculty about the future of the Psychology graduate programs. They’re slated to cut not just the Ph.D programs, but also phase out the rest of the graduate courses within the next 2-3 years! The Dean said they’re going to commit to try and make sure students in the programs can finish their degrees before they graduate, but they need to act quick (given the 2-3 year timespan). Fortunately, I’m done with dissertation data collection and need to write up the Results and, eventually, Discussion sections.

Main thing I’m wondering though. One of the faculty said that once tenure track faculty earn tenure, they can’t go anywhere. Is this true? I have a feeling it’s nonsense since my first advisor, within her first year of becoming a full professor, left the program for a different college before she dropped me as an advisee.