Laz would at least pause, if not seek medical advice first...
Posted on 03/30/2018 5:02:00 AM PDT by 1BadgerStater
Tenure used to provide faculty members with solid protection against all but criminal behavior. But now it is proving no match for weak excuses for firing professors who administrators want to be rid of. Marquette University’s termination of political science Professor John McAdams for speaking his mind about a younger faculty colleague’s handling of a student is one such case.
Another case has arisen at Louisiana State University.
Teresa Buchanan had been teaching in the education program at LSU’s Baton Rouge campus for nearly 20 years when, in 2015, she was fired for violating the school’s policy against sexual harassment. What had Professor Buchanan done to get the administration so upset that it went straight for the ultimate academic penalty, even over the objections of the faculty senate? Read more......
(Excerpt) Read more at jamesgmartin.center ...
As a graduate of Marquette University’s graduate program, I am appalled.
Laz would at least pause, if not seek medical advice first...
What do you mean, Laz would be all over that like Oprah on a honey glazed ham.
We’re going to need a ruling over here...
Interesting case.
I’m not in favor of professors cursing at their students, but I don’t necessarily think it should be a firing offense, and I certainly do not consider it “sexual harassment”.
On the other hand, it is always fun to watch the left eat their own over PC issues.
However, I think my love of freedom is going to win the day and say I’m going to say I don’t think she should have been fired for the reason(s) she was fired.
Summary: She used vulgar language in class.
Thanks for link. I wondered why the above article was so vague about her remarks. Hard to defend what she said, what a nasty woman.
Looks justified.
What is most interesting is that political correctness overrides tenure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_tenure
Tenure once defended the principle of academic freedom, which holds that it is beneficial for society in the long run if scholars are free to hold and examine a variety of views.
“that it is beneficial for society in the long run if scholars are free to hold and examine a variety of views.”
Sadly they no longer seem to hold a variety of views.
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Oh, tenure still does defend the principle of academic freedom. The problem isn't tenure, the problem is who gets selected for the tenure track.
Conservative professors are usually relegated to the non-tenure renewable fixed-term track.
Read the article linked in post 2.
You might want to revise your assessment.
Dead Wrong.
Summary: she made assumptions about the sex lives of her students and then spewed forth unwanted critiques and advice using vulgar terms.
No, I’d hit it.
I’m not seeing that what she said was all that bad.
So?
I do that here.
And every place where I have ever worked would tell you to knock it off.
This woman wouldn’t knock it off so they fired her.
As would happen to you this were a job.
Some professions require professional behavior on the job.
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