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I think the way to read the response of the Faculty Comittee is this. He was an adjunct he hasn't earned the protection of academic freedom. He gets to keep his

I think the way to read the response of the Faculty Comittee is this. He was an adjunct he hasn't earned the protection of academic freedom. He gets to keep his job if he fulfills what we feel like is necessary to be a member of our community. We feel like he's a negative experience for students and we don't think his addition is worthwhile. I'm all for not indulging the carebears but the message "You were allowed to stick around after you failed because we thought we could use you and felt sorry for you. But we don't like you and some of our students don't like you. Go find another job." That is not a carebear handling of things if he wanted to have academic freedom he had a right to get tenure. He's an adjunct he needs to act like it. This is very much like Augusta where the don't have formal rules some things are simply frowned upon and its your responsibility to understand the culture of the club. It was his responsibility to understand the culture of the faculty in his tenuous position. That is a very important lesson for him and for students by his example.

etrevino 7y ago
He wasn't an adjunct. Some universities (or schools within universities) do five year contracts now as an alternative approach to tenure.
- richardhod 7y ago
  Precisely this. I find it appalling that an associate professor was not given tenure, because that is normally a tenured position, particularly since he'd been there 20 years
  - krull10 7y ago
    I think he was an Associate Professor of the Practice -- it's not a tenured position, but more a longer-term teaching-type appointment. It generally offers more job security and benefits than an adjunct might receive, but at many universities such a position is not (and was never) on a tenure-track line.
- WesternStar 7y ago
  I think this is a difference of degree but not kind. Duke still has tenured faculty. He is clearly not afforded the rights of tenured faculty. For this matter functionally he's an adjunct because that's how they ruled on him.

etrevino 7y ago

He wasn't an adjunct. Some universities (or schools within universities) do five year contracts now as an alternative approach to tenure.

richardhod 7y ago
Precisely this. I find it appalling that an associate professor was not given tenure, because that is normally a tenured position, particularly since he'd been there 20 years
- krull10 7y ago
  I think he was an Associate Professor of the Practice -- it's not a tenured position, but more a longer-term teaching-type appointment. It generally offers more job security and benefits than an adjunct might receive, but at many universities such a position is not (and was never) on a tenure-track line.
WesternStar 7y ago
I think this is a difference of degree but not kind. Duke still has tenured faculty. He is clearly not afforded the rights of tenured faculty. For this matter functionally he's an adjunct because that's how they ruled on him.