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Paulsen and Hudyma write about being overloaded, under funded, junior faculty member at a teaching university. Increasingly, new college and university faculty find themselves in a frustrating situation that is not of their own making. Recent Ph.D.'s approach their first job flush with the excitement of their doctoral research and fully acclimated to the milieu of the research university. Jobs at research universities are in short supply and most Ph.D's will be employed by institutions very different than those where they trained. They arrive at their new positions to find under-equipped labs, meager support staff, high teaching loads and other circumstances that conspire to quash the most ambitious research agenda. Shoestring U explores the bind, detailing how the contemporary academic context challenges the potential contributions of junior faculty and offer creative, practical solutions for satisfying curiosities and tenure demands despite limited institutional or extramural support.