Eighty percent, or more, of tenured professors could be replaced by YouTube videos of a handful of the best lecturers in the country.
You'd only need to record them every few years, or longer.
The youth of America is VERY familiar with this sort or learning.
I'm amazed that the youth of America hasn't rebelled over the university bookstore scam, considering their familiarity with digital media.
“Walker is proposing to end tenure in the state university system”
Excellent. Need to eliminate it from elementary and high schools as well.
Scott Walker is a dangerous man (to the establishment).
The real bloat is not in teachers' salaries, but in scads more administrative personnel responding to ever-more state and federal mandates.
The reason that colleges can afford to hire so many administrators is because of college loans.
If anyone really cares about reforming higher education then they need to eliminate government backing of loans. The interest rates will go so high that virtually no one will take out a loan, and colleges will have to contain their costs in order to keep the seats filled.
Some corporations might agree to pay for some promising students' education if they promise to work for them upon graduation (sort of like ROTC). But then the students would have to get worthwhile degrees and actually learn something so they could be an asset to the company that was financing their education.
Then they wonder why all the professors are lefties.
An inspiring article... but the anticipation of quixotic antagonism leaves me reserved.
I think it is time to end tenure at State Universities. At the moment I am leaning towards Scott Walker.
That said, this is an appallingly bad article and adds nothing intelligent to the argument as to why academic tenure should be ended. For heaven’s sake the author even advocates “state testing for all college courses”!!
Dear God protect us from the likes of Bruce Walker.