And the most important message is to go out and vote for everyone with a D by their name. Unless you want to continue living in a state where they disregard every good decision our local governments make. I am sick of their stupidly and GREED.
Where is the Purdue president on bill 202? He only cares about bringing $ to Purdue, not quality education. One would think that we do not offer English, foreign languages, history, government, and all areas of conservation, or teaching at all levels. You would think that with all our brains at Purdue, the unqualified legislature would listen to the experts and save the wetlands! But do not forget that senator Scott Baldwin chair of the education committee didn’t know the difference between nazism and any other “ism”! Where was he when the teacher in 11th grade U.S history taught about WW2?
Spencer deery continues to radicalize the colleges and universities of Indiana. How are we going to keep the best professors if we allow the legislature to choose our trustees? And then these rich business trustees will decide tenure for our faculty? What qualifies these mostly rich business men to determine the work of any of our faculty? And these people think this will bring the best and brightest to Purdue? If they are the brightest they will know not to come here. Deery is not a boilermaker nor a red devil. He needs to go to the most radical state in the union - Florida and present his ideas that are similar to the nueremberg laws there. And the most frightening part of this is our republican super majority senate bought this garbage. Who is making up these insane ideas?
The best way to explain the importance of tenure to people who understand business but are unfamiliar with how universities work: 1) It's a huge personal investment, especially of time, to prepare for an academic career; 2) it is highly competitive because everyone agrees that it is essential to hire only the very best candidate; 3) an older academic might fear competition with a talented younger colleague would cost them their hard-won job. Tenure removes the fear of hiring someone better than you are and enables universities to hire only the very best. There are, of course, many caveats and subtleties, but this explanation tends to work for people who have been to college (and therefore, very incorrectly, think they know how universities actually work).
And the most important message is to go out and vote for everyone with a D by their name. Unless you want to continue living in a state where they disregard every good decision our local governments make. I am sick of their stupidly and GREED.
Where is the Purdue president on bill 202? He only cares about bringing $ to Purdue, not quality education. One would think that we do not offer English, foreign languages, history, government, and all areas of conservation, or teaching at all levels. You would think that with all our brains at Purdue, the unqualified legislature would listen to the experts and save the wetlands! But do not forget that senator Scott Baldwin chair of the education committee didn’t know the difference between nazism and any other “ism”! Where was he when the teacher in 11th grade U.S history taught about WW2?
Spencer deery continues to radicalize the colleges and universities of Indiana. How are we going to keep the best professors if we allow the legislature to choose our trustees? And then these rich business trustees will decide tenure for our faculty? What qualifies these mostly rich business men to determine the work of any of our faculty? And these people think this will bring the best and brightest to Purdue? If they are the brightest they will know not to come here. Deery is not a boilermaker nor a red devil. He needs to go to the most radical state in the union - Florida and present his ideas that are similar to the nueremberg laws there. And the most frightening part of this is our republican super majority senate bought this garbage. Who is making up these insane ideas?
The best way to explain the importance of tenure to people who understand business but are unfamiliar with how universities work: 1) It's a huge personal investment, especially of time, to prepare for an academic career; 2) it is highly competitive because everyone agrees that it is essential to hire only the very best candidate; 3) an older academic might fear competition with a talented younger colleague would cost them their hard-won job. Tenure removes the fear of hiring someone better than you are and enables universities to hire only the very best. There are, of course, many caveats and subtleties, but this explanation tends to work for people who have been to college (and therefore, very incorrectly, think they know how universities actually work).