Posted on 05/21/2016 2:08:56 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
Andrea Quenette, the University of Kansas communications professor subjected to protests and a formal investigation after offending her liberal students, was cleared of wrongdoing. But she is still ultimately out of a job.
"Andrea has been denied continuation of her tenure," her husband, Scott Quenette, told Reason. "Despite having a recommendation from the tenure committee and her department. The new dean unilaterally denied it."
This decision was contrary to the recommendation of her department. Quenette will be able to continue at her job for another year, and then her employment at KU will be at an end.
(Excerpt) Read more at reason.com ...
Something about inmates and asylums comes to mind.
The reign of snowflake terror.
It’s absurd. At worst, she made an honest mistake.
This is what snowflake brownshirts reminds me of, if somebody can link it.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=74-WSM0xTyE
The new dean was behind this.
It’s starting to look like the aggrieved crowd is overplaying their hand. People will suffer, but their persecutors will more and more appear obvious for what they are being. God is also neither unfair nor ungracious. People who will suffer for the sake of doing the most correct thing before God that they can embrace, will see rewards after their suffering. Advantages that people seem to get on earth by doing wrong can be forgiven, but they will not be prospered.
Maybe she should have an album cover of N.W.A. in the classroom or perhaps quote lyrics from the ghetto rap.
What are these “children” going to do when real life slaps the sh!t out of them??????
Hang in there lady.
If the dean is that big a fool, you have a good chance that he will get dumped before your year is up.
More frightening, what are we going to do when these "children" are running corporate HR departments?
The racket currently extends well outside of the ivied walls. If it didn’t, it would perish at the graduation ceremony.
She might even run for replacement dean...
“Andrea has been denied continuation of her tenure”
The WHOLE POINT of tenure was to insulate people that might have objectionable opinions from the (then right-wing) college establishment. In other words it was technically neutral as to who it protected, but it was meant to protect Communists.
So now there is a “continuation of tenure”? What the hell is that - either you have it or you don’t. If you have it, then you are SUPPOSED to be left alone, with the only exception to continued employment being something egregious, like committing a felony.
As it is, it’s time to end tenure anyway. It’s OBVIOUS now, given what’s going on, on campii, that the only purpose of tenure was to protect Communists...and they are the only ones being protected. If you say you’re against gay marriage, adios!
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Looks like I should have read the article...it’s not really “continuation of tenure”, it’s “continuation of tenure track”...which has been around for a long time.
Even so, the system still needs to be routed - as people with tenure are still losing jobs now for making snowflakes feel ‘uncomfortable’.
I’ve kinda sorta seen this, though I haven’t confirmed it formally by checking diplomas and dates, etc. So with due caveat caveated, this is a suspicion not a proof.
I worked for most of a year at a retailing company that used to have great stature as a faith-founded enterprise that had spread for decades out of a single location to a network of presence in most American states. Most of you have probably heard of it.
I got crosswise with the supervisor who had hired me, who unbeknownst to me at the time of my acceptance, had a short fuse and liked to show people just how short it was. I did not adapt immediately to the new regime. Making a long story short, finally I was fired, not even (at least formally, though there may have been nod, wink) by the supervisor but by an HR who had taken it the wrong way (as if I had personally threatened) when I hinted that heaven brought bad results to those who mistreated people. But frankly my gut feeling at the time was whoopee, I’m free, even though I was now jobless in a city far from family. And the good Lord took care of me afterwards too. Maybe He has rewarded me for having warned them where they were headed.
Until you are tenure, you can be fired for anything. Even in a communications class, there are other ways to get your point across then the ‘n’ word.
I don’t think tenure ever applied to either prejudice or professional misconduct when they happened in the classroom. I don’t believe that this was actually a case of directing a racial slur against students but it IS what the students have maintained since the beginning.
So TENURE is no longer the shield it once was.
The left will learn in time the problem with changing rules to suit themselves is that someday in the near future, those self same rules will be used to remove them from the classrooms across this nation.
Part of the problem with talking as a medium is that people might not see the scare quotes implied around certain freighted terms such as “nigger.” But again there are other clues such as tone of voice which do not come across in print.
And yet again, people should get a chance to clarify. Even communications experts may have to speak more than once to get their meaning across.
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