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How to navigate competition between new faculty colleagues

Our department hired three new faculty this year and we're all supposed to be collaborative but there's this weird competition happening around course loads and research support that no one acknowledges. We smile in meetings and then I hear people complaining privately about who got what, and I'm doing it too.

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Your team acts friendly in meetings while quietly competing for who gets what.

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