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I hope this includes tenure. Few things are more threatening to kids in deep Uni debt than truly toxic professors who can't be fired.

selimthegrim 4y ago
There is a bill in the Louisiana Senate to end tenure at state schools. I am not sure quality faculty are going to hang around after that passes.
- Mandatum 4y ago
  They'll move from state schools to private schools, because highly respected, well-performing teachers will be looking to work with other highly respected, well-performing teachers and well-regarded schools. This was already the case, but it will just result in further privatization.
  - cafard 4y ago
    Because Tulane has so many tenure-track offerings?
    - selimthegrim 4y ago
      In materials, not physics (in my case). Tulane was also privatized in the 1880s and occupies a unique place in the state constitution with many functions as part of its formerly public nature (supervisory functions over state police, legislatively nominated scholarships, etc), but presumably still has enough influence to ensure this bill doesn't apply to it.
  - boppo1 4y ago
    Kinda sucks but at least there will be some sort of competence-check. I paid $80000 for 50% of my profs to be overt progressive propagandists and I was too young and impressionable to really figure out what was going on. Credit to the Uni though, there was a physics prof who spent a lecture insisting climate change was not caused by humans whatsoever, so I guess there was a little balance.
    - selimthegrim 4y ago
      And what grounds did this prof cite?
nunez 4y ago
The other side of this is that it is brutally hard to obtain a post as a professor at a university (way more supply than demand), and professors having no protections at all might find themselves moving all over the country for whatever posts they can find when they get fired by some well-connected student who didn't like them saying the word "gay" or something.

selimthegrim 4y ago

There is a bill in the Louisiana Senate to end tenure at state schools. I am not sure quality faculty are going to hang around after that passes.

Mandatum 4y ago
They'll move from state schools to private schools, because highly respected, well-performing teachers will be looking to work with other highly respected, well-performing teachers and well-regarded schools. This was already the case, but it will just result in further privatization.
- cafard 4y ago
  Because Tulane has so many tenure-track offerings?
  - selimthegrim 4y ago
    In materials, not physics (in my case). Tulane was also privatized in the 1880s and occupies a unique place in the state constitution with many functions as part of its formerly public nature (supervisory functions over state police, legislatively nominated scholarships, etc), but presumably still has enough influence to ensure this bill doesn't apply to it.
- boppo1 4y ago
  Kinda sucks but at least there will be some sort of competence-check. I paid $80000 for 50% of my profs to be overt progressive propagandists and I was too young and impressionable to really figure out what was going on. Credit to the Uni though, there was a physics prof who spent a lecture insisting climate change was not caused by humans whatsoever, so I guess there was a little balance.
  - selimthegrim 4y ago
    And what grounds did this prof cite?

nunez 4y ago

The other side of this is that it is brutally hard to obtain a post as a professor at a university (way more supply than demand), and professors having no protections at all might find themselves moving all over the country for whatever posts they can find when they get fired by some well-connected student who didn't like them saying the word "gay" or something.