Firing tenured professors will ne a new normal rule.
Firing tenured professors
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One of my colleague resigned after post tenure review. After the review, Dean assigned him a course that he does not want to teach and asked him to be in sh**ty committees, etc.
Another colleague did (or could) not publish two papers in the past five years and he now cannot teach upper level finance courses. He will probably face a salary cut. He is not quitting because he has children to support but his career in this school is ended.
We have labor union so admins cannot directly fire tenured professors but there are ample options that they can use to make them go away.
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Everyone teaches courses that might be less enjoyable than others. So I don't really get the argument.
One of my colleague resigned after post tenure review. After the review, Dean assigned him a course that he does not want to teach and asked him to be in sh**ty committees, etc.
Another colleague did (or could) not publish two papers in the past five years and he now cannot teach upper level finance courses. He will probably face a salary cut. He is not quitting because he has children to support but his career in this school is ended.
We have labor union so admins cannot directly fire tenured professors but there are ample options that they can use to make them go away. -
Firing for financial emergency reasons involves closing down a whole department or program. Then the tenured profs in it will be fired.
An example of what can bring about firing, a former colleague of mine, tenured, developed a very serious drinking problem. He began regularly missing classes he was supposed to teach a lot. Finally the provost showed up at his house at 10 AM one morning when he was supposed to be in class. He was already dead drunk. And he was shortly thereafter also out of a job.
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Everyone teaches courses that might be less enjoyable than others. So I don't really get the argument.
One of my colleague resigned after post tenure review. After the review, Dean assigned him a course that he does not want to teach and asked him to be in sh**ty committees, etc.
Another colleague did (or could) not publish two papers in the past five years and he now cannot teach upper level finance courses. He will probably face a salary cut. He is not quitting because he has children to support but his career in this school is ended.
We have labor union so admins cannot directly fire tenured professors but there are ample options that they can use to make them go away.
It's not argument. It's what happened.
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Everyone teaches courses that might be less enjoyable than others. So I don't really get the argument.
One of my colleague resigned after post tenure review. After the review, Dean assigned him a course that he does not want to teach and asked him to be in sh**ty committees, etc.
Another colleague did (or could) not publish two papers in the past five years and he now cannot teach upper level finance courses. He will probably face a salary cut. He is not quitting because he has children to support but his career in this school is ended.
We have labor union so admins cannot directly fire tenured professors but there are ample options that they can use to make them go away.
Yeah, teaching is so easy. Quitting because you don’t want to develop a new course indicates that you are the very worst of dead woods.
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not an easy task though. so, nope. tenure is still bulletproof.
A tenured professor can be fired for many reasons.
This maybe true. You do not need to quit if you have a tenure. Even if firing becomes easier than before, a tenured position should have much more job security.