Posted on 07/16/2023 4:45:26 AM PDT by karpov
After 36 years as a full-time faculty member, I retired as a tenured professor from the University of Southern California on May 15, 2022. Retiring faculty members typically retain as an honorary title their last academic rank, for example “professor emeritus.” The designation is not automatic but pro forma in most circumstances. I watched as the members of my retirement cohort announced their new emeritus or emerita status to the rest of us in turn.
At USC, the emeritus designation “indicates honorable retirement from assigned duties, recognizes faithful service worthy of high commendation, and expresses an anticipation of continued membership in the academic community.” My faculty colleagues recommended me for emeritus designation, but the central administration delayed action in my case.
When I announced my retirement, I agreed to the institution’s request to teach a graduate class at the USC Price School of Public Policy the following fall. I declined an opportunity to teach at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. Who would want to deliver a full-time teaching load in retirement? Then, on June 20, the dean of the Price School emailed me to withdraw the request that I teach. He offered no substantive explanation, and I realized there likely was a connection between this unusual reversal and the delay in receiving notice of my emeritus designation.
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BTTT
not a party member in good standing apparently
Liberals are extremely tolerant of everyone you agree with.
Find a job at an actual university.
When I lived in California decades ago, USC was called the University of Spoiled Children and also the University of Second Choice.
Social credit creep.
People are stupid if they don’t believe that they plan on incrementally ratcheting up in the coming months/years.
hardly “leading” anything....
You think emeritus withholding is bad? Just wait until the latest crop of students are designing high-rise buildings and high-traffic bridges.
Thus, the poison flows.
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