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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My school just eliminated Economics as a major and minor, and fired the tenured professor and the adjunct teaching those classes. Was there any reason for this? None. It doesn’t even save them much money. They had to buy out the tenured prof by giving her a year’s salary as severance, but I’m not sure she took it, as she is exploring legal action against the university. Not sure what chance she has against the army of lawyers at HU though. It’s a nightmare. No one here is safe. Tenure as protection is laughable at HU.
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It’s laughable in many places. Probably in most. 😦
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“The president of my university uses the same verbiage …”
Is there perchance a ChancellorBot/UniversityPresidentBot play book from which these people read their lines?
Also, is it available in Russian, or is that a trick question? 🙂
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The Russian system of higher education can’t be destroyed because it doesn’t really exist. So that’s one thing Russians have nothing to worry about.
The Ukrainian higher ed is just as bad, in case people think I’m being down on the Russians for ideological reasons.
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[hoped you’d get the joke that all the Kremlinbots work from the same instruction manual, so there must be a manual for all of the ChancellorBots and UniversityPresidentBots, and that it’d be funnier if it were written in Russian]
But there you go, making me explain the joke …
[it’s not as funny that way, you know] 🙂
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If only I had a sense of humor. . . But there’s still a possibility that I will get the joke sometime next January, and will laugh hysterically over it, scaring people.
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Administrators almost by definition fight to keep their own jobs going. In this context, the University will continue. Whether future programs will include classes in advanced dog walking is another matter.
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How do you solve a problem like the neoliberal academy?
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