Carrol Cox wrote: > Tenure can be broken, of course, though I don't know how frequently.
it is usually broken by successfully proven accusations of moral turpitude or by simply shutting a department down. How did they get rid of Bruce Franklin Barbara Foley? Jeff writes: >it seems to me one of the most poisonous things in the academy is this >ridiculous fetishization of the private sector, as if in "the real world" you >could never get away with this, that, or the other thing. which is wholly and >completely crap. but it doesn't stop administrators and faculty management >(e.g., dept chairs, in some cases, or certain committees) trying to make the >college "more like a business." hello, guys, it IS a business< But most if not all true colleges and universities are not-for-profit. I remember Parsons College going for-profit and almost immediately losing accreditation. I guess deVry is for-profit, but that's a technical school, not a true university. -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
