{"id":198,"date":"2016-12-09T12:53:23","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T17:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthewcroberts.com\/?p=198"},"modified":"2016-12-09T12:53:23","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T17:53:23","slug":"matt-roberts-3-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.matthewcroberts.com\/?p=198","title":{"rendered":"Matt Roberts 3.0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey all, I guess that since most of my responsibilities have been wrapped up, and many of you are aware anyway, my birthday is as good of a time as any to make it public that December 31st will be my last day at Ohio State. As of January 1st, I\u2019ll be either full-time employed at Kernmantle Group, my new consulting company, or gainfully unemployed depending on your perspective.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve had a few questions prior, so just to hit the FAQs:<\/p>\n

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  1. Yes, I am tenured. But tenure exists to protect faculty from vindictive attacks on good science, not just as a job guarantee.<\/li>\n
  2. I\u2019m not getting fired or asked to resign or leaving under a cloud. This is by my choice, and, I think, a pretty significant surprise to nearly all of my colleagues.<\/li>\n
  3. This is not spur of the moment. Mardi & I have been thinking and praying over this for at least a year. By early this semester, I had decided to leave in late \u201917, but then events made it more logical to go ahead and leave now.<\/li>\n
  4. To quickly summarize, the things that are most important for my department aren\u2019t what is most important for me. AND THAT\u2019S OKAY. I\u2019m not mad or grumpy or angry. I tell students all the time that employment is a two-way match. It has to be win-win. I think that the department can find someone who aligns better with their vision, and I can build something on my own that aligns better with my vision, and we will both be better off.<\/li>\n
  5. I will miss being in the classroom more than anything, as its hardest to do \u2018on my own\u2019 and I hope that the bridges I\u2019ve crossed are intact enough to allow me to return and continue to teach about commodity markets and grain marketing.<\/li>\n
  6. Mardi & I are excited about this new phase in our lives. In the past month, I\u2019ve felt more professionally energized and alive than at any time in the past 10 years.<\/li>\n
  7. Kernmantle Group is a consulting firm providing commodity market applied research, training, and education. Right now, it\u2019s just Mardi & I, though hopefully that will change.<\/li>\n
  8. Yes, mom, we have health insurance.<\/li>\n
  9. Yes, dad, we have retirement, too.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I do hope that this clears things up. I want to say again that there are no hard feelings on my part toward anyone at OSU. I have loved my time in AEDE\/FAES. It has been really hard to leave as its been such an integral part of our lives and our very identity. But I\u2019m still young and have a lotta miles left in me, so its time to give Matt Roberts 3.0 a try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Hey all, I guess that since most of my responsibilities have been wrapped up, and many of you are aware anyway, my birthday is as good of a time as any to make it public that December 31st will be my last day at Ohio State. As of January 1st, I\u2019ll be either full-time employed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewcroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewcroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewcroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewcroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewcroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewcroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewcroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewcroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewcroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}