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The only reason for there being even some legitimacy, at some schools, is the old tenured faculty, a few of them, anyway. Admin knows full well these guys are getting in the way of their plundering, and has been steadily pushing them off campus, either through trumped up charges<\/a>, expensive buyouts<\/a>, or getting out of the tenure contract just by changing the name of the school<\/a>.<\/p>\n

These methods are a bit slow, however, and now we are starting to see statewide efforts to remove tenured professors (and their ability to keep integrity in education) wholesale:<\/p>\n

Arkansas Universities Want to Be Able to Fire Professors Who Aren’t Collegial<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cCollegial,\u201d like most words, means whatever admin wants it to mean. For the most part, they use it as a synonym for \u201cnice,\u201d though even in this they are being deceptive, and only want sycophancy here.<\/p>\n

The actual meaning of collegial is acting as though you were among colleagues, equals\u2026how can professors do this, when they are not equal to administrators, who wield all the power on campus? It\u2019s a dead issue on the face of it, or should be, but let\u2019s go with the administrative definition of being nice.<\/p>\n

Letting admin define the words that can end tenure, destroying the lives and families of dedicated scholars, is a terrible idea. It could only be remotely tolerable if there was some reason to think admin would act in good faith here, but there\u2019s no reason for that.<\/p>\n

See, at Penn State, a number of eyewitnesses reported to admin that there were foul, foul, things going on in the showers. Admin dismissed these reports out of hand.<\/p>\n

Why? Because admin felt that the witnesses were not being collegial<\/em>. Now, I see admin\u2019s point, as there probably is no way to say \u201cI saw with my own eyeballs the coach sodomizing a child in the showers\u201d in a sufficiently nice way, but I want to point out very clearly: if admin will twist the definition of \u201ccollegial\u201d in a way to protect ghastly pedophilia, why would we trust them not to abuse it in other ways?<\/p>\n

I\u2019m hardly alone in understanding how this will be used:<\/p>\n

“That provision would allow the termination of a faculty member who ignores instruction to teach the politically correct or anti-intellectual version of a subject in the classroom,” Peltz-Steele wrote.<\/em><\/p>\n

Already, Karl Marx\u2019s books are the most read books on campus. If this new rule went into effect, admin could order me to force my calculus students to read The Communist Manifesto. If I refused? Then absolutely, my tenure (if I had it) could be canceled and I\u2019d be fired.<\/p>\n

This may sound ridiculous, but on some campuses the Communist Manifesto is read as a piece of English Literature\u2026the Manifesto is as much a work of English Literature as it is a calculus textbook.<\/p>\n

Please understand, I\u2019ve seen many faculty with integrity threatened with charges of \u201cnon collegiality\u201d when they tried to speak out against the debasement of higher education, and I\u2019m hardly alone to have seen it:<\/p>\n

“Collegiality-related charges are easily and frequently thrown in as a laundry-list item in faculty investigations, and often it is the only charge universities can make stick,” Peter Bonilla, a writer for FIRE, explains<\/a>. “It’s a difficult charge for faculty to fight \u2014 just about any behavior could be subjectively cast as un-collegial, after all\u2014and therefore an easy charge with which to gain leverage.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Indeed, the whole subjectivity here is the problem. Counting on good faith from admin is as reasonable as asking for integrity, or for them to take a pay cut so tuition can be lowered. Pure idiocy, in other words.<\/p>\n

Faculty are helpless here. So, the rules will be changed. They\u2019re justifying the changes due to \u201cbest practices,\u201d i.e., because some other places are doing it. \u201cBest Practices\u201d is another phrase that admin doesn\u2019t understand but nevertheless gets away with defining it however they please. Instead of carefully considering the implications of a rule that exists elsewhere, and deciding if it\u2019s a rule that really is the best thing they can do for education, the only decision is \u201cwill this give us more power,\u201d and if the answer is \u201cyes,\u201d it will be done.<\/p>\n

Mr. Peltz-Steele urged professors to push back. “What is happening at Arkansas, just one instance amid an alarming national trend, needs wider attention,” he wrote. “Simply put, an attack on academic freedom anywhere is an attack on academic freedom everywhere.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Once Arkansas puts in stone that you can get rid of a tenured professor because he\u2019s not nice in your opinion, other states will follow along soon. It\u2019s best practices, after all. Seeing as we\u2019re at the stage where simply being white is considered \u201cnot nice\u201d on many campuses I\u2026really don\u2019t think this is a good idea at all.<\/p>\n

Too bad what faculty think has long since ceased to matter on our campuses.<\/p>\n

www.professorconfess.blogspot.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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