Michael Sylvester wrote:
> I suspect that if we establish a criteria that all condidates for tenure
> will have to spend 10 hours a semester helping the homeless,we will see
> more community service involvement.
Actually, what we would see is:
1. 10 hours LESS time spent on Academic activities (teaching, research,
etc.) each semester,
2. Less individuals making the decision to enter teaching instead of the
private sector,
3. Non-tenured faculty doing the community service work while tenured
faculty had no such obligation,
4. A serious ethical question arising as to the right of the institution to
dictate the PRIVATE behavior of the faculty in terms of requiring
non-compensated services (and a union challenge everywhere such a rule was
enacted),
5. More teachers voting Republican in an effort to get rid of intrusive
regulations such as that one.
Nope, Michael. I really don't think that one is going to fly,
Rick
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Rick Adams
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Jackson Community College
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