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To: Kid Shelleen

The tenure system for professors needs to fixed or eliminated. They become unaccountable. A law unto themselves. What other profession gets that?

The Trump administration should eliminate federal funding for any college/university that won’t eliminate tenure.


7 posted on 06/25/2017 6:04:14 PM PDT by Lucas McCain (Liberalism is the willful embrace of abject stupidity.)
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To: Lucas McCain

She was an adjunct professor.

There is not much security in that position.


11 posted on 06/25/2017 6:09:49 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
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To: Lucas McCain

“They become unaccountable. A law unto themselves. What other profession gets that?”

I know of one! The United States Congress!!! /s;)


19 posted on 06/25/2017 6:55:55 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: Lucas McCain
The Trump administration should eliminate federal funding for any college/university that won’t eliminate tenure.

The abuses of the tenure system are hugely overstated. I'm a tenured professor who has been in academe for 30+ years. Tenure can be revoked and I've seen it happen. Universities have post-tenure review processes and if someone isn't performing, he or she can be removed.

As to your solution to a non-problem, how is that conservative? Because there are no federal universities (other than the military academies), why should the federal government get involved in private employment contracts? If universities want to grant tenure, what business is that of the federal government? State governments have an interest in employment contracts for state universities but with private universities, the governments have no business getting involved in private employment contracts.

28 posted on 06/25/2017 7:50:40 PM PDT by CommerceComet (Hillary: A unique blend of arrogance, incompetence, and corruption.)
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