Posted on 06/05/2015 4:54:46 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Translation....... 75 % of the teachers are part time grad students grasping for straws to keep them afloat till they finish their degree”
At the local state university, many of the non-tenured faculty are “gypsies” who teach by the course, often at several area colleges at the same time, or they are full-time but are on one-year contracts. They have Ph.D.s, but either cannot find tenure-track jobs or in a few cases prefer temporary or part-time employment.
The oligarchy gets its power from shared governance, hence his outrage at its possible demise.
So. A liberal history revisionist whining about losing his all-access pass to spew and spout lying dogma to impressionable mush minds? Whining that Muslim Professors and Muslim sympathizer sappers can’t feel safe in their protected academic strongholds to continually snipe at the minds of our young adults? They want to be able to spew hatred for decency, sovereignty, hard work, independence and tradition without repercussion or consequences.
I wish them a speedy trip to the unemployment line. Maybe then they can come down from their towers and learn what the real effects of liberalism are.
ROFL!! That page is beyond parody!!
We are long past the point where we should have weeded these liberal propagandizing sinecures out of our public institutions.
Reagan had plans for something like this in his second term. A very thorough “Defunding the Left” initiative.
So of course they did everything they could to take him out with Iran-Contra and force him to shelve it.
We need to look at this in the greater context of the higher education balloon bust. First a few axioms:
1) By offering to educate everyone, while some are still getting a useful education, everyone else, the overwhelming majority, are being impoverished for decades after having missed out on four or more of their most productive working years.
2) Schools have for years been strongly moving away from education, into research, athletics, and anything else that will make them a profit, including kickbacks from student loans and “dead peasant insurance” on their students. Most of that nonsense will have to end, and student bodies will shrink in size from 2/3rds to 3/4ths.
3) State subsidies to higher education are throwing money down rat holes. With a major economic downturn, the money pump will be cut off. Tuition prices will collapse.
Okay, now this being said, stripping professors of tenure will be needed to speed up firing them, a big help when you are downsizing like there is no tomorrow.
You’re right.
It’s become a rat hole, a very EXPENSIVE one.
A real money pit.
So of course they did everything they could to take him out with Iran-Contra and force him to shelve it.
That was the Democrat/Media industrial complex doing that, as well as the squishy milquetoast wing of the party. Reagan had exactly the right ideas, I just wish he hadn't been so nice. A meaner Reagan is exactly what we needed, at least in terms of action, not disposition.
And why is it that such a high percentage of professors were tenure-track in the 1960's? It was because being a professor was a relatively low-paid job back then. The people who wanted to be professors would put up with lower pay than industry because they LIKED the academic life. There weren't that many people who loved academic life, so colleges had to compete for them by offering tenure.
And now it’s totally politicized and used to help elect socialists.
“.....In a statement distributed by his political group, Walker responded to Clinton’s speech by arguing, “Hillary Clinton’s extreme views are far outside the mainstream.”
While Spakovsky says the liberal judges in Wisconsin means the lawsuit might have a chance in that state, the legal case itself is weak in his view. For example, he said Clinton lawyer’s complaint committed a sanction-worthy legal error by seeking to adjudicate Wisconsin’s voter ID law all over again.
“This complaint is written like an extended press release, not a lawsuit,” he said. “Look, Marc Elias, I don’t agree with him on a lot of policy issues, but I like the guy and I am just shocked that he would do something that is such a fundamental legal error.”
Spakovsky also took issue with the lawsuit’s opposition to a rule that asked colleges who provided “dorm lists” for voter registration purposes to verify the citizenship status of the students seeking to vote.
“The state said OK, when the college administrators provide that dorm list they have to certify that those students are U.S. citizens, and yet that somehow supposedly violates federal law,” Spakovsky said. “Well that’s a ridiculous claim because it’s illegal for someone who’s not a U.S. citizen to register or vote and all Wisconsin is doing is asking the university who knows whether their students are citizens are not through the application process to certify that the person is in fact a student.”
Tenure should also be abolished for politicians.
No more decades in public office.
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