Comments on: Outrage du Jour: CU Fires Wrong Professor

By: actus

actus — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 19:18:30 +0000

“Pretty soon there will be no ntnure, and professors will be “let go” at the whim of any political hack.”

The adjunct faculty are some of most abused people in academics. Here at GW they are banding together and unionizing to try to gain some more rights.

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 01:02:05 +0000

Sounds unfair, but many academics are on year to year contracts. Supposedly, after 7 years one is automatically tenured, but persons below the rank of Associate Professor are excluded from that policy. Pretty soon there will be no ntnure, and professors will be “let go” at the whim of any political hack.

By: JohnHays.net » The University of Colorado is just so sleazy

JohnHays.net » The University of Colorado is just so sleazy — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 02:18:31 +0000

[...] or for using a particular book in class and talking about his religious beliefs. Link via XRLQ who got it from PrestoPundit. The following is [...]

By: actus

actus — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:08:23 +0000

It said his ‘contract wouldn’t be renewed’. That to me doesn’t sound like tenure.

By: Hube

Hube — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 16:14:17 +0000

Didn’t Mitchell have tenure? He was at CU for 20 yrs.

By: Hube

Hube — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 16:12:16 +0000

Didn’t Mitchell have tenure? Says he’s been teaching at CU for 20 yrs.

By: actus

actus — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 20:45:59 +0000

“OK, who was the idiot who told us “academic freedom” prevents Colorado University from firing Ward Churchill?!”

defenders of tenure?