Another tenured professor is being fired for pro-Palestinian protests. This is the first public university professor fired under this pretext but previously two private college professors were fired, as well.
What people don’t seem to understand is that if you destroy the concept of tenure over this, you will have destroyed it over everything else. Read my posts from yesterday and earlier today. The only reason why professors can oppose administration’s plans is because we have tenure, academic freedom, and academic self-governance. Does anybody think it’s a good idea to leave higher education entirely in the hands of small cohorts of bureaucrats?
Yes, many professors have dumb ideas. But nobody will touch those professors. It’s the original thinkers, the ones who stand out, the ones who go against the current who will be thrown out. Is that what we want? Do we want people like me to not be in academia? Is that going to be a gain for us as a society?
For what important gain are we undertaking such a massive change?
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