{"id":44034,"date":"2018-06-11T13:57:20","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T20:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/world.edu\/?p=44034"},"modified":"2018-06-11T13:59:56","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T20:59:56","slug":"wyoming-best-practices-destroy-higher-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wyoming-best-practices-destroy-higher-ed\/","title":{"rendered":"Wyoming best practices: Destroy Higher Ed"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A few years back, I called attention to changes to the way how higher education in Wisconsin<\/a> was being run. Namely, they were introducing new rules which potentially could eliminate tenure, annihilate academics, and reorganize higher education into a jobs training program. Naturally, the politicos making the changes said that the \u201cpotential\u201d was just pure paranoia, that academics had nothing to fear from the new rules, which would just allow for better education, somehow.<\/p>\n

Three years later, Wisconsin went ahead and used the new rules to eliminate tenure<\/a>, annihilate academics, and reorganize higher education into jobs training.<\/p>\n

Now, I\u2019ve nothing against jobs training, and if you\u2019re going to spend $100,000 on \u201ceducation,\u201d you absolutely should get educated in something which justifies that sort of expense (especially if you\u2019re taking out a loan). Trouble is, the people running higher ed degraded education, far too often, instilling indoctrination over education. The only thing that slowed down this degradation was the academics\u2026with them removed, why would anyone think the jobs training will be legitimate?<\/p>\n

\u201cLegitimacy\u201d is seldom discussed in higher ed. \u201cBest practices,\u201d on the other hand, is. Time and again I\u2019ve seen it: some Poo Bah finds a new way to loot student loan money away from the poor kids stumbling onto campus, and then other schools use \u201cbest practices\u201d to do the same thing\u2026ethics, much less legitimacy, isn\u2019t part of the decision making process.<\/p>\n

Now that Wisconsin has established that even \u201clifelong\u201d contracts can be casually changed at a whim, it was only a matter of time, in this case weeks, for other places to adopt these \u201cbest practices\u201d:<\/p>\n

Wisconsin in Wyoming?<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Proposed changes to shared governance at the University of Wyoming recall those passed in Wisconsin. Professors in Wyoming say tenure would exist in name only if their governing board gets what it wants.<\/em><\/p>\n

Maybe the professors \u201csay\u201d that because it\u2019s true? Naturally, faculty are generally against this. For what it\u2019s worth, faculty aren\u2019t much for protesting. Yes, we teach quite a bit, but we also do our research in the summer, and that usually requires travel. Still, we\u2019ll protest the destruction of our jobs if we can.<\/p>\n

Gosh, what would be the best way to keep faculty protests to a minimum?<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026the new planned board vote in July — when far fewer faculty members will be on campus or even in the state.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

One of the reasons \u201cbest practices\u201d is considered a good way to do things is because it does make sense to simply copy ideas and actions which have been used successfully before. It\u2019s the same thing with skullduggery, alas.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s very clear Wyoming will be following Wisconsin\u2019s lead:<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026that university regulations may be \u201cadopted, changed or amended at any regular or special meeting of the trustees without prior formal notice.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

So, they can just change the rules whenever they feel like it, and they can do so without anyone even knowing what\u2019s going on. Yeah, there\u2019s \u201cpotential\u201d there for higher education to be simply stripped down to nothing but what the plunderers at the top want it to be. Why is it such a stretch to think the plunderers will take this opportunity to engage in more plunder?<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026such a change effectively means \u201cthe end of shared governance. Without even consulting the faculty, they could do whatever they wanted — with no prior notice, even on a phone call, at any time.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Again, I point out the only thing that\u2019s kept even a minimal amount of education in our universities is the tenured faculty, who are in a position to fight hard to keep some respectability there. At the community college level, tenure doesn\u2019t exist, which is why you can commonly find 3rd grade material being taught there, assuming the classes have any material at all.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll efforts would be made to preserve full-time faculty positions, but they wouldn’t be guaranteed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yeah\u2026anyone who thinks anything less than a guarantee is worth much is a fool. Granted, even a guarantee isn\u2019t worth much anymore, since the previous rules were guaranteed, with the only caveat being that they might be changed later, under certain restrictions. They\u2019re changing the rules, and eliminating the restrictions on further changes, and it\u2019s that elimination which ultimately will result in the mass destruction of higher ed.<\/p>\n

I grant that right now it\u2019s all being \u201cdiscussed,\u201d but hey, it\u2019s my blog. I\u2019ll discuss it again in a few years (or less) when it all becomes reality.<\/p>\n

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

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