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To: Kaslin

Point one: recording lectures used to be commonplace and now the professors don’t want their true words heard outside the classroom? Ridiculous! How is competence established?

Point two: GET RID OF TENURE! That was pushed through just so this sort of thing wouldn’t matter in the light of day.


28 posted on 02/21/2017 5:19:11 AM PST by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: originalbuckeye

I felt as you do, that tenure should be abolished, but I’m not so sure any more. As Glenn Reynolds wrote on Instapundit, in many institutions the only reason there are any conservatives there at all is that they received tenure at a time when the university may have been more open to their point of view, or they managed to conceal their perspective until they received tenure.

I think that I am still opposed to it, and that the schools must reform from the top down, but there is another point of view.


29 posted on 02/21/2017 5:32:05 AM PST by Piranha (Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have - Saul Alinsky)
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To: originalbuckeye

Mike Adams as well is probably only a professor because he is tenured.

Better to get rid of all of the administrators whose positions have been created over recent decades.


30 posted on 02/21/2017 5:34:00 AM PST by Piranha (Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have - Saul Alinsky)
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To: originalbuckeye
Point two: GET RID OF TENURE!

I agree except for one thing: No tenure encourages the firing of long employed, higher paid teachers to be replaced by lower paid new teachers. Cuts 'em loose a little short of retirement. Saves money for the system and may (or may not) affect the quality of education for the students. Unfair and unacceptable.

46 posted on 02/21/2017 2:25:46 PM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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