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This thread is aimed at creating discussion about the benefits, faults, and room for improvement in the American and Canadian academic tenure system.
At its heart tenure is a concept with good intentions. Good, hard working teachers should not be displaced and stranded without a job because of the elimination of classes they teach for reasons outside of their control (shrinking population, classrooms merging, etc).
The big issue with tenure is that the same roles that help protect good teachers from getting laid off also make it nearly impossible to fire bad teachers. (17 minutes long, summary here)
[youtube]tfkscHt96R0[/youtube]
I believe that this video really highlights the big issue of the difficulty of firing someone with tenure and the damage it does to the system of tenure as a whole. The purpose of this thread is to look at tenure, its faults, whether or not it is salvageable, how one would go about fixing it, things of that nature.
Also, if anyone here remembers my last thread (please respect the no necromancy rule) I'd just like to say that he survived and is currently in the process of rehabilitation (score one for the doctors).
At its heart tenure is a concept with good intentions. Good, hard working teachers should not be displaced and stranded without a job because of the elimination of classes they teach for reasons outside of their control (shrinking population, classrooms merging, etc).
The big issue with tenure is that the same roles that help protect good teachers from getting laid off also make it nearly impossible to fire bad teachers. (17 minutes long, summary here)
[youtube]tfkscHt96R0[/youtube]
I believe that this video really highlights the big issue of the difficulty of firing someone with tenure and the damage it does to the system of tenure as a whole. The purpose of this thread is to look at tenure, its faults, whether or not it is salvageable, how one would go about fixing it, things of that nature.
Also, if anyone here remembers my last thread (please respect the no necromancy rule) I'd just like to say that he survived and is currently in the process of rehabilitation (score one for the doctors).