Don't Know Why I Have the Nicest Office in the Building

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In the Chronicle Forums, a current question is getting a lot of attention: "embitteredhistorian" asked the question: "How does your university decide who gets what offices?" Some responses:

• "I've no idea why I got possibly the nicest office in the building."
• I received the office vacated by my predecessor and have clung to it stubbornly.
• All the furniture is standard - we are not allowed to bring in our own chair, table etc.
• Due to remodeling, reorganizations, new construction, leases ending, the hiring or firing of bigwigs, and the facilities staff and/or president having prophetic dreams, I get moved into a new space every year or two.
• My department, like many others nationally, has steadily lost tenured and TT lines over the years, so all of us have gotten an outside office with a window upon hire.
• it's our departmental administrator who makes the decision, according to what we suspect is a sort of 1950s sense of who "counts" (senior men, junior men; then, far below, senior women, junior women; and last, adjuncts, also sorted by gender).

Having a window that actually opens seems to be the most frequently mentioned desirable amenity.

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