The Georgia Board of Regents (GBR), which oversees the University System of Georgia (USG) changed the rules whereby a tenured professor can be judged not by his/her peers, but by superiors. The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has been threatening to censure the USG after the GBR's ruling. Tenured professors here are …
The Georgia Board of Regents (GBR), which oversees the University System of Georgia (USG) changed the rules whereby a tenured professor can be judged not by his/her peers, but by superiors. The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has been threatening to censure the USG after the GBR's ruling. Tenured professors here are outraged--and of course, conservatives are the ones doing their level best to totally destroy the whole concept of tenure. I can't remember if the AAUP has censured the USG yet, but it could very well cause the state to lose competent professors to other states. Don't get me started on what's going on in higher education right now. In short, I believe the whole system is in dire danger of collapsing, and all because of their own mistakes, greed, and shortsightedness.
That strategy of having superiors determine tenure rather than the faculty of peers seems awfully similar to what is being tried with respect to voting. I mean taking NonPartisans off of supervising voting and putting partisans in and allowing the legislature to overturn the voters judgment.
That same type of clandestine adulteration of required reading school class textbooks has been the Anti-American faux christian Conservative de rigueur for years, and such historical revisionists have not yet been successfully deterred!
I am not surprised. I suspect the U of Miami will also lose profs. The far right radicals are determined to destroy all education which might counter their message. The Nazis did this when they overran Poland, but they killed all the intellectuals, making it a quick death instead of death by a thousand cuts.
Superiors? I think that may be a large part of the problem; when elected officials or any group consider themselves superior. It has purpose in the military but could perhaps be reconsidered in the rest of society.
That's just it. The Georgia Board of Regents, the highest ruling body overseeing all colleges and universities (the USG has reps from all 27 colleges and universities which are tenured faculty members elected by their peers), are all political appointees of the governor (just guess what party that would be...) and tend to be party big-wigs and donors. Most of them haven't set foot inside a classroom since they were in school (undoubtedly on daddy's dime...), so know bugger all about education. However, one of their main jobs is to allocate funding and occasionally they'll wade into issues like this tenure review kerfuffle. As I've said elsewhere, don't get me started on the myriad problems and injustices in higher education, but let's just say it starts at the very top with WAY too many "Vice-Presidents-in-Charge-of-__________", usually pulling in 6-figure salaries, and who are about as far removed from actual education as can be imagined. They're there to "develop", to go out and track down donors, to oversee investments, and to ensure the school is making as much money as possible. Most administrative staffs now aren't about teaching. It's about running the "business". But hey, what else should one expect from a country that thrives on totally over-the-top, unbridled, hyperactive capitalism??
The Georgia Board of Regents (GBR), which oversees the University System of Georgia (USG) changed the rules whereby a tenured professor can be judged not by his/her peers, but by superiors. The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has been threatening to censure the USG after the GBR's ruling. Tenured professors here are outraged--and of course, conservatives are the ones doing their level best to totally destroy the whole concept of tenure. I can't remember if the AAUP has censured the USG yet, but it could very well cause the state to lose competent professors to other states. Don't get me started on what's going on in higher education right now. In short, I believe the whole system is in dire danger of collapsing, and all because of their own mistakes, greed, and shortsightedness.
That strategy of having superiors determine tenure rather than the faculty of peers seems awfully similar to what is being tried with respect to voting. I mean taking NonPartisans off of supervising voting and putting partisans in and allowing the legislature to overturn the voters judgment.
That same type of clandestine adulteration of required reading school class textbooks has been the Anti-American faux christian Conservative de rigueur for years, and such historical revisionists have not yet been successfully deterred!
I am not surprised. I suspect the U of Miami will also lose profs. The far right radicals are determined to destroy all education which might counter their message. The Nazis did this when they overran Poland, but they killed all the intellectuals, making it a quick death instead of death by a thousand cuts.
Superiors? I think that may be a large part of the problem; when elected officials or any group consider themselves superior. It has purpose in the military but could perhaps be reconsidered in the rest of society.
That's just it. The Georgia Board of Regents, the highest ruling body overseeing all colleges and universities (the USG has reps from all 27 colleges and universities which are tenured faculty members elected by their peers), are all political appointees of the governor (just guess what party that would be...) and tend to be party big-wigs and donors. Most of them haven't set foot inside a classroom since they were in school (undoubtedly on daddy's dime...), so know bugger all about education. However, one of their main jobs is to allocate funding and occasionally they'll wade into issues like this tenure review kerfuffle. As I've said elsewhere, don't get me started on the myriad problems and injustices in higher education, but let's just say it starts at the very top with WAY too many "Vice-Presidents-in-Charge-of-__________", usually pulling in 6-figure salaries, and who are about as far removed from actual education as can be imagined. They're there to "develop", to go out and track down donors, to oversee investments, and to ensure the school is making as much money as possible. Most administrative staffs now aren't about teaching. It's about running the "business". But hey, what else should one expect from a country that thrives on totally over-the-top, unbridled, hyperactive capitalism??
It is absolutly horrible.
An article from October about what I referenced above:
https://georgiarecorder.com/brief/public-college-tenure-changes-headed-for-vote-despite-professor-protests/