Posted on 02/12/2010 3:31:27 PM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
HUNTSVILLE, AL (WAFF) - Police said a female member of the UA-Huntsville staff shot and killed three co-workers on campus.
Huntsville Police, Madison County Sheriff's department and HEMSI responded to a shooting at the UAH campus at 4:00 Friday afternoon.
The shooting happened in the Shelby Center, a math and science classroom building.
Authorities said a female faculty member during a Biology faculty meeting learned she would not receive tenure. She then pulled out a gun and started shooting.
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The phrase at the end of the third line is oddly predictive considering her denial of tenure. . . “NO is toxic”
The theory is that without tenure, staff can be fired for their opinions. Thus killing academic freedom, essential in some fields, well most really. I mean suppose some guy is working on a theory that would overturn someting their department chair had come up with? You think he'd stay on long without tenue. The downside is of course that lessor motivated members become like real government workers, instead of quasi government ones. The tenure system exists even at privately rnn institutions. My wife has it, and she works for a private college, not a state one. She wouldn't work for state school if they paid her twice as much. (Which they would not, if anything they tend to pay a bit less)
There is something just plain wrong with her eyes.
The poor tortured woman. May G_d have mercy on her victims, may He bless and comfort those who have lost a loved one at her hand, and may He find a way to still the evil that this woman has within.
For researchers, the main point of the job is to do research. Teaching students is kind of a sideline in most cases.
Your impression of Harvard PhDs is too shaped by Harvard undergrads, Business School and School of government products. Harvard actually has some really good science programs. Used to work with a guy, Big Al, who had PhD in physics from there. Smartest guy I ever worked with, and very down to earth.
A lot depends on where and in what circumstances they grew up. Plus where they did their undergrad work.
Those at private colleges and universities do. Same system, pretty much, as in the public colleges and universities.
Students are a distant second.
Cheers!
I looked up both student and faculty handbooks, both say that they can be punished for unauthorized possession of a firearm. Students who hunt may store their rifles and shotguns with the campus police. (That is common practice on many campi, gun free or not.)
Not everywhere. My daughter, who is a PhD *student* has more papers published, in referred journals, one as a principal author, than my wife. My wife is not only is tenured, she's department chair. But, that is at a small school, where only her department grants graduate degrees,and then only master's.
Registered? In Alabama? ROTFLMAO. Permits to carry concealed they have. But not for mere possession. They have no registration of firearms.
But to the wrong school. That's University of Alabama-Birmingham, not Huntsville. Since the law would allow carry on campus, it's a campus policy and could be expected to vary from one to another, although in this case, it doesn't, except perhaps in detail.
I could care less if private companies or private schools have tenure. They do not confiscate my money to operate.
Once again, do you think it is right for government schools that we are supporting with out taxes, to grant tenure to government teachers, which essentially gives them a jobs for life if they desire? You think this is OK?
No it is not.
I told you, this kind of fraud could only exist in government and I was right, given the fact that tax payers money is used to support government teachers that are given jobs for life, or tenure.
This does not happen in private schools. This is not a difficult concept to understand.
If it came to the JBTs going door-to-door, I would rather find a used portable gun case at the flea market, cover them with grease and bury them in the back yard, than ever register them.
Good, hope it stays that way.
But to the wrong school.
You'll have to talk to "hitkicker". I just made the link live for him... :-)
I looked up both student and faculty handbooks, both say that they can be punished for unauthorized possession of a firearm.
Someone finally came up with the answer and supplied a link to a letter. I posted the contents of the letter from the President of the University and his reference to the item in question and specifying where it's to be found in the Handbook -- on Post #183 ... :-)
As I understand it, ‘tenure’ as we’ve come to understand it, is being reduced or eliminated at many colleges and universities. Does your wife’s college still grant tenure?
The intricacies and political wranglings of obtaining tenure today seem to offset its original purpose of leaving professors free of outside pressures. Now the pressure seems to come from colleagues (in many disciplines) for conformity to the ‘culture’ of the department. The ‘academic freedom’ that tenure was supposed to ensure can’t be enjoyed from the get-go It certainly explains the dominance of liberal professors on campus if they will only confer tenure on like-thinkers.
So, it may be that as your daughter progresses, she will have a vast portfolio of published writings and years of successful research and teaching, but STILL not get tenure simply because the college/university that she’s affiliated with won’t be offering it. And that may be a good thing.
I agree. Bowl and scissors.
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