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Julie Shayne, faculty coordinator of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies wrote her third blog piece for about what it means to be considered . In it she argues that while senior in rank within IAS there are still stark material, cultural, and structural differences that subordinate even senior lecturers to junior faculty on the tenure track. In the piece, she was asked to offer recommendations that other universities might take up to rectify the inequities. She drew on some existing best practices in IAS as well as ongoing conversations about changes many of us would like to see implemented: salary parity, parallel ranks, lecturers in leadership positions, new norms, redistribution of office space, and bury the condescending professional narrative that presumes the lecturer track is a back-up plan. This is Shayne鈥檚 sixth academic blog post. Previously she wrote about the undergraduate students on research, the freedom to do once switching to the lecturer track, in order to prioritize quality of life over traditional career advancement, , and the .