Texas proposal to eliminate tenure at universities: will destroy research in Texas.

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Anonymous wrote:Give how much conservatives claim they are persecuted on college campuses, I am surprised that conservatives would support abolishing the one thing that gives conservative professors the freedom to speak openly about their views without fear of repercussions.

Wow, you don't really believe this do you?

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Anonymous wrote:This is in the right direction. Too many dead wood faculties on the pay roll that do nothing. This will make the positions available to young rsearchers who are active on teaching and research. If you no longer produce results you come down. Always so in the industry, time for the same in academia.

There really aren't that many "dead wood" faculty because if you don't produce research grants (which typically pay more for than your salary to student funding) you typically get an increased teaching, advising and service load. So the people who are teaching 1 class a semester are doing that because they were research-productive enough to bring in enough money to buy out their courses, and their advisees are embedded in their lab. And the only way to get pay increases other than the occasional most minor cost of living bumps are to get competitive offers from other universities that want you in really competitive national searches.

And don't tell me there aren't even more dead wood middle managers/upper level managers in industry! Or CEOs who wreck a business but get a golden parachute. This glorified version of "industry" is laughable. At least in academia you have to provide direct service to students and have achieved a level of expertise formally recognized by both people in your college and experts in the field. (I've worked in both academia and industry).

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Anonymous wrote:It’s OK to dislike tenure, but why should the government regulate its use? Shouldn’t it be up to the people who run the colleges?

This would apply to public colleges and universities in Texas. They can’t abolish it for private institutions.

Yes I am aware of this. I am still not sure why it should not be up to the people running the institution. I am still not sure why government intervention in policy is necessary even though public colleges are partially publicly funded.

No one has answered this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Undermining education is a core component of the new GOP.

They want the country to be fat [b]and dumb.

np What do you have against fat people? You can be skinny and dumb and fat and smart!

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Anonymous wrote:Rich republicans will just send their kids out of state. This will affect poorer Texans who can’t afford to leave, as usual.

I doubt private schools in Texas will eliminate Tenure.

No. They'll actually benefit from it. Rice, SMU, Baylor have large endowments and will attract more talent.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Undermining education is a core component of the new GOP.

They want the country to be fat and dumb.

Also, college towns are notoriously liberal. From Houston to Austin.

Austin has the highest anti-vaxxer rate in the state and in the country. 'Liberal' in Texas doesn't mean much when over 50% of your school children in places like Austin don't take vaccines.

Let's add no abortions, no tenture, no healthcare and now...no trans kids or else

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Give how much conservatives claim they are persecuted on college campuses, I am surprised that conservatives would support abolishing the one thing that gives conservative professors the freedom to speak openly about their views without fear of repercussions.

Wow, you don't really believe this do you?

You don’t??? What world are you living in?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Undermining education is a core component of the new GOP.

They want the country to be fat and dumb.

Also, college towns are notoriously liberal. From Houston to Austin.

Austin has the highest anti-vaxxer rate in the state and in the country. 'Liberal' in Texas doesn't mean much when over 50% of your school children in places like Austin don't take vaccines.

Let's add no abortions, no tenture, no healthcare and now...no trans kids or else

And yet - Californians are flocking to Austin.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Undermining education is a core component of the new GOP.

They want the country to be fat [b]and dumb.

np What do you have against fat people? You can be skinny and dumb and fat and smart!

I suppose that is true. That said, there is a well established negative correlation between IQ and weight in the population.