Posted on 02/06/2023 11:53:43 AM PST by ChipMarne
A Republican lawmaker in North Dakota has proposed legislation codifying new responsibilities for tenured professors at two public colleges and making it easier for their presidents to fire them.
“In response to the urgent need to accelerate workforce development, the state board of higher education shall implement a four-year pilot program,” House Majority Leader Rep. Mike Lefor proposed Jan. 18 in House Bill 1446.
The new program would clarify faculty responsibilities and empower the president of the university could review and fire faculty if they failed to fulfill them.
The reforms would be enacted no later than May 1 of this year, according to the bill. They would apply to faculty at Bismarck State College and Dickinson State University.
(Excerpt) Read more at thecollegefix.com ...
Be careful what you ask for here, N. Dakota... that door can swing both ways.
How about education is none of the government’s business? That means not a single dime from government going to schools and no government backed lending or grants going to students. Free market capitalism will take of the problem.
Problem is who runs the school.....
Tenure is both a blessing and a curse. Good professors may be assured of a lifetime devoted to not worrying about being terminated for specious reasons, but seriously bad demagogues can, if they carefully conceal their intentions over time, also gain tenure, and then spew out their venom almost without any recourse.
Good to see the ND Legislature is taking on these issues as Gov DeSantis and the Legislature are doing in Florida.
We need to encourage the GOP Governors in all states to promote new legislation removing WOKE agendum from their states.
Funny that tenured professors who don’t play ball with the left get harassed and driven out of their jobs anyway. I’m beginning to think that the faculty governance model is breaking down because of a general decline in professional pride and ethics.
Educators are not the least bit special. They ought to be fired for any reason. Their employment should be at will. The same goes for all government employees. If you look at professions that are really eff’d up, they have one thing in common. Their employees are protected.
Right, the woke a-holes who run the Colleges could use this to purge the Conservative that are still there.
Getting rid of tenure would just put more power in the hands of the university administrators who are probably in most cases even more left-leaning...it would let the administration get rid of any conservative faculty. Plus there is the issue of breach of contract if a faculty member did everything required to get tenure and then was fired because the administration didn’t like his political views, or wanted to reduce the number of white heterosexual faculty members.
Professorial tenure status and clan membership are equivalent diseases...
Both need eradication...IMHO...
I agree with every word you said!
Maybe, but OTOH the administration is at least more accountable for their stewardship of the organization. Fixed term contracts in leu of tenure seems a reasonable compromise.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.