Florida Governor Rick Scott Takes Aim at Tenure Lisa Roney from Academe Blog I am a tenured associate professor at one of the largest (though, let me emphasize, not one of the highest ranked) public universities in the U.S. How can I explain why it is that this often makes me want to cry? Don’t[...]
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March 28th, 2011 - 1:32 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Letter seeks to reassure alumni that tenured faculty members are not under attack.
from the statesman.com more on The AVE about the University of Texas, including the effort to lower standards in a medical school. and proposals to arm the faculty. University of Texas System regents, stung by criticism a day earlier from the alumni association at UT-Austin, pledged support Friday f[...]
March 21st, 2011 - 4:20 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Tenure: Pro and Con
From JAF Critics of tenure argue that, though tenure may be advantageous to individual faculty, increased use of non‐tenure‐track appointments best contributes to organizational economy and flexibility through cost savings, eased response to enrollment shifts, and reduced resistance to curricula[...]
March 6th, 2011 - 9:16 pm § in Schools & Colleges
COLLEGE PRESIDENTS: Solve budget crisis = online ed, drop tuition “discounts,” end tenure.
Ed. As the UW Presidential Search continues with little apparent faculty input, this survey of sitting presidents is very disturbing. The bottom line is that these CEOs seem to have no interest in academic quality, whether that means addressing the increasing issue of remedial classwork or the nee[...]
February 18th, 2011 - 7:05 am § in Schools & Colleges
End Tenure at UU
from The Daily Utah Chronicle Rep. Christopher Herrod, R-Provo, introduced a bill Monday that he said would encourage more competition for universities by prohibiting universities f(in Utah) rom giving their professors tenure. …. Universities should be keeping the best professors rather than[...]
July 4th, 2010 - 10:25 am § in Misc.
Unraveling tenure at MIT
from MIT’s “The Tech” By Jessica Lin STAFF REPORTER June 11, 2010 … According to The Report on the Initiative for Faculty Race and Diversity, which was released this January, from 1991-2004, about 53 percent of all assistant professors were not awarded tenure. Granted, obscur[...]
The debt ceiling is a fake crisis
Wall Street never believed the U.S. would default; Congress isn’t that crazy. But somebody could miscalculate. The 2023 debt ceiling crisis will be a squeaker. The House passed the compromise that Speaker McCarthy and President Biden spent weeks negotiating; the Senate still must do so. It pr[...]
April 16th, 2023 - 11:12 pm § in Politics, Republicans
A very brief essay about freedom and round holes
By now you should realize the real “Big Lie” is Republicans claiming they’re for freedom. Republicans are in the business of taking freedoms away. They’re taking voting away from voters, books away from schools and libraries, tenure away from professors, and healthcare and f[...]
Term limits for thee, but not for me
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is sponsoring a bill that would limit U.S. senators to two 6-year terms (read story here). Except him. Under his bill, Cruz, 52, would have to retire in January 2036, when he’s 66. By then, he’ll have served five 6-year terms in the Senate. Term limits are a favorite[...]
January 9th, 2023 - 10:23 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Universities shouldn’t teach intolerance
But Hamline University, in St. Paul, Minnesota, is a private college; so they can do that, and they just did. Writing for CNN, David M. Perry, a journalist and academic, says (here), “Last fall, Hamline University … hired Erika López Prater, an art history professor, on an adjunct basi[...]