https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/01/08/questions-raised-firing-tenured-professor-u-illinois
Tenured professor fired!
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Guy is a nutcase.
Wozniak’s most recent troubles began in 2009, when a student honor society awarded another professor the departmental teaching honor he believed was his. Called “Woz” by his “GKs” or “grandkids” – what he called students – Wozniak was a respected teacher who had won the same award in several previous years. Suspecting that something was amiss, he confronted the president of the honor society in his office and asked her what had happened.
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He said he consulted his department chair, who was unsympathetic. So he filed a departmental grievance and posted a video about the award and his exchange with the student
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The fired professor also tried to sue the student and another leader of a similar student society to find out exactly how the award decision had been made.
All this over a teaching award? One given out by students? Seriously?
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Wozniak’s most recent troubles began in 2009, when a student honor society awarded another professor the departmental teaching honor he believed was his.
The fired professor also tried to sue the student and another leader of a similar student society to find out exactly how the award decision had been made.
ahahah suing students over teaching awards - this is the most deadwood boomer to ever boom
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Actually makes for an interesting read.
tl;dr version:
Deadwood prof who usually wins teaching award (voted for by student group) doesn't win this year, so he investigates and finds out he did in fact get the most votes. He reveals this fact by posting a video of his interview with the student, where the student cries, and this was considered (among other things) a breach of student privacy.
The guy seems a like crazy, sure, but after finding out you got the most votes, but didn't win the award, I think you'd go all mel gibson conspiracy theory crazy until you got to the bottom of it.
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Goshdarnit, the WARNED him. Just back the heck down, dude. It's just a teaching award. It's not a cure for cancer. It's not even a political idea. It's just a teaching award.
Even IF he is correct in principle, and that's a big IF, I'd never go to the mat for this guy because he's burning himself for nothing, literally nothing. I would never lift more than half a finger to defend such stupidity, principle or no.