After a year and a half of trying, I finally got the permission to hire a full-time faculty member in French. With one condition.
Prepare yourselves.
No, I mean, really prepare yourselves.
I can proceed to hire a full-time faculty member in French immediately on the condition that I put in the paperwork to close down the French program. Also immediately.
This means I can hire a full-time, unionized person to teach a program that we are eliminating.
Yes, the permission and the condition are coming from the same people, in the same email, and the same sentence.
No, I can’t ask what this means. It’s like those automated banking call centers. There’s nobody to answer questions. Whenever I email or call, I get one of those “your email is very important to me. I’ll answer it as soon as I can” template responses.
I mean, what do I care anymore? I’ll hire and eliminate simultaneously, and then let the absolute doofuses who came up with this genius plan sort out the consequences.
Clarissa's Blog 
” hire a full-time, unionized person to teach a program that we are eliminating”
I would assume (dangerous, I know) this means they want to eliminate French as a major but still have someone to teach a year long language requirement (why you’d need a full-time unionized person for that….)
Or maybe it’s a trap…
LikeLike
This is a 4-courses per semester job. I won’t have 4 courses for this person without a major. It’s very mysterious.
LikeLike