So, are we not going to talk about Kansas getting rid of tenure ("temporarily")?
One of the great perks of academia is the tenure system. If tenure can be revoked when its most needed, what good is it?
Death of tenure @ Kansas
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So, are we not going to talk about Kansas getting rid of tenure ("temporarily")?
One of the great perks of academia is the tenure system. If tenure can be revoked when its most needed, what good is it? -
"In light of the extreme financial pressures placed on the state universities due to the COVID-19 pandemic, decreased program and university enrollment, and state fiscal issues, effective immediately through December 31, 2021 and notwithstanding any other Board or institutional
policy, any state university employee, including a tenured faculty member, may be suspended, dismissed, or terminated from employment by their respective university."https://dailynous.com/2021/01/21/kansas-suspends-tenure-protections/
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So, are we not going to talk about Kansas getting rid of tenure ("temporarily")?
One of the great perks of academia is the tenure system. If tenure can be revoked when its most needed, what good is it?I know of this case. He sounds unhinged, but that never hurt a Leftist nutter. His problem is he went after the orthodoxy. Funny thing is he's Juish and gay.
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conservative full prof here. I will defend tenure on contractual grounds more vocally than most of my liberal colleagues will. They are usually a little weak and easily pushed around on this stuff.
But what I think about tenure (in practice, as opposed to what I think about the concept) is entirely different. I am not sure it is justified, given how lazy my colleagues are.
Among the remnant that is the conservative faculty, my attitude is fairly common.