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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I'd love to hear your views on the big donors you work with. You make it sound like everything is the profs' fault.[/quote]

No, some of them are jerks too.  But saying, to a potential donor who is also a parent, that you would be making so much more progress on your research if you didn't have to teach is just boneheaded.  I mean, really.  And I prep these boneheads, but they never listen.  And then they bitch to me when the gift doesn't come through.  Well, try not offending the donors as tip number one![/quote]Yeah, this person sounds like a moron.[/quote]

But she's a GENIUS!  A genius, I say.  Who doesn't need someone like me - who isn't even a PhD (egads!) - to help her.  To which I replied that she is welcome to try fundraising on her own from now on if she feels she would be more successful (she won't be).  My dean agrees. [b]She's the kind of person who would be fired if she wasn't protected by tenure.[/b][/quote]This may be true but tenure also protects a lot of the professors that you like and get along with.  I know several faculty members whose opinions would have made them huge targets but tenure protects them and allows them to continue working.  Consider AG Cuccinelli's attack on a UVA prof (now tenured at Penn State) for his research on climate change, for example.[/quote]

Tenure was designed to provide freedom of academic inquiry without fear of repercussion - not to give people carte blanche to act however they please.  There ought to be a way to remove faculty who demonstrate a consistent pattern of abusive, rude behavior toward colleagues or students.  Tenure is a good thing but it needs to be revised.[/quote]

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