There was an idiot hanging around the blog a while ago who kept insisting that tenured professors don’t get fired. Idiot, do come back and read the following:
Some departments were targeted for elimination because they included tenured faculty members who, through length of service, had reached the top of the salary scale. Faculty members also contended that tenured and nontenured members of the faculty were “cherry-picked” for elimination and that the administration did not offer credible programmatic reasons for the reductions.5 Members of the faculty in the affected programs further alleged that ill-conceived decisions to consolidate or eliminate programs resulted in a shortage of faculty members to teach required courses in spring 2015.
Got anything else to say, idiot? There are endless cases like that around the country.
For normal people, I need to issue a warning that the report is very disturbing even though nothing it contains is surprising to us. The president of my university uses the same verbiage as the president of USM, so obviously this is not making me hopeful for this university’s future.
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