Seems to me that tenure rights are some measure of job security but do not pertain to genuine political dissent. Someone who is targeted has no tenure rights. I came to Rutgers the year after Eugene Genovese was forced to leave. There were no tenure rights then either.
> > From: "Devine, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/02/12 Sat PM 12:15:43 EST > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Ward Churchill: one liberal view > > I wouldn't call profs part of the working class or proletariat. Maybe the > semi-proletariat. > > Alas, it seems more likely that tenure rights will go away before they are > extended to the (rest of the?) working class. The attack on Churchill (not > the actual killer, the old UK PM) will mesh well with the current movement to > abolish tenure rights. > > Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine > > ________________________________ > > From: PEN-L list on behalf of Eubulides > Sent: Sat 2/12/2005 7:06 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Ward Churchill: one liberal view > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Devine, James > > [snip] > > If academic tenure means anything at all, it means professors must be > allowed to say and write what they choose without fearing removal by popular > referendum. > > [snip] > > > ------------------------- > > Gee, wouldn't it be nice if the rest of the working class had the same free > speech rights at work as the tenured professoriat.............. >
