>

Ah, attacking academics. Conservatives know their fascist ABCs.
But strangely not judges >

Or their own jobs. 
Edit: for those being naive I’m talking about term limits. >

Um...they are up for review every two to six years. They just aren't being fired by the people in charge--the voters. >

Gerrymandering enters the conversation >

The cure for Gerrymandering- all seats run as ‘at Large’ — yep >

That's close to a Proportional system, which would fix the problem. The system mostly stays as it is, with a new rule that means a party's proportion of seats must equal it's proportion of votes - so if a party wins 55% of the vote but only wins 50% of the seats, it can add 'at large' members (aka 'list members') until the proportion is correct. That is how most democracies operate. Usually parties only add one or two 'at large' or 'list' members, if any, since there is no motivation to Gerrymander to begin with. >

Whoa! You have too much faith in the American voters- they cannot understand that >

Well, a large chunk of the electorate really does not want to understand that. >

Hoo boy.  What could possibly go wrong here?  Texas science departments about to become vast wastelands of biological and environmental chaos. >

Universities going bankrupt because "only liberals send their kids to college, everyone else goes to trade school".
Seriously though, enrollment is going to drop because who tf would pay good money for our children to come out dumber than they were when they went in? Especially in the science and history areas of study. >


who tf would pay good money for our children to come out dumber than they were when they went in?

Have you seen the enrollment numbers at Liberty University? >

The main University is depressingly lucrative. But the soul-crushing depression sets in with their online 'university' numbers, which is a massive money pipeline selling useless/negative education through a real-estate grift masquerading as a church masquerading as a school. >


real-estate grift

What do you mean? How does this connect to their online programs? >

They buy or lease real estate for satellite campuses in other cities and sell them later on. Similar to how storage facility companies mainly make money via real estate >

Wow, I had no idea >

I mean lots of businesses are substantially real estate plays adjacent to their other businesses. One reason there's Banks on every corner. McDonald's corp is a real estate holdings company. Chain Hotels etc. >

I've wondered at the placement of a lot of chain establishments >

"The share of Republicans and independent-leaning Republicans who said higher education was having a negative effect on the country grew from 37% to 59% from 2015 to 2019 in Pew Research Center polling."
What happened in those four years, I wonder? >

I'd love to hear what that perceived negative effect is. There's an argument that too many jobs require degrees when they really shouldn't, but I suspect that's not the problem for them. >

Something, something vague complaints about liberal indoctrination >

w o a k >

Stopping people from telling the truth will not make things less true. You do this at your own peril, and hubris is a fickle, chaotic mistress. >


Stopping people from telling the truth will not make things less true.

Except it will. We've learned by now that truth is relative. Conservatives in the US have whipped up such a fury over Critical Race Theory that they've convinced half the country it's being taught in grade school. It isn't and never was. That truth simply didn't matter.
Donald Trump and those around him used violence and tried to overthrow a democratically elected president. In the old days, he and they would have been hung or shot. That's the truth. The other day, the speaker of the house THANKED HIM.
Truth doesn't matter. >

I'd swear to God if I believed in him that these idiots see the phrase "Critical Race Theory" and think it just means being critical of white people. Their lust for victimhood never fucking ends. >

holy shit they are trying to put Dolores Umbridge in charge of education.
It's the first step to Government Approved Thoughts. >

One thing HP did was get a whole generation to understand fascism, that’s not all bad. >

And a whole lot of people want to be Slytherin willingly, either to be edgy or because fascism is their kink. >

I mean, slytherin traits are not exactly evil…  ambition, cunning, resourcefulness and determination. None of those are inherently evil >

Those are the triats of a lot of people who get into politics or leadership roles because they want absolute power. >

I mean… in the books Merlin was in slytherin lol 
Those traits can be in anyone. Just like a gryffindor hufflepuff or ravenclaw. Any of those traits can also be put towards your example. >


in the books Merlin was in slytherin lol

No. That was an expanded item from "Pottermore". I personally don't consider any of JK's after the book add-ons valid. >

Man, why? Colleges hardly even offer tenure-track jobs anymore.  I've been job hunting for a few years and everything is "visting" this or "adjunct" that.  You want to ban people drinking sasparilla too? >

Conservatives dont have a moral or logical backbone, so if youre looking for a well thought out argument for anything they stand for, its simply not going to exist. >

Another example of a system that does need a few tweaks through reform just getting smashed with a hammer.  There are about 50 other issues state universities need to address before they even get to shitty tenured professors.  Starting with the NCAA and how college coaches are usually the highest paid state employees in every state. >

The problem is not with tenure, it's with administrative bloat. Universities are switching to more part-time, adjunct professors and raising tuition while paying administrators like they're executives at a Fortune 500 company >

Professors got tired of administering the day to day operations of the university and so brought in a managerial class of deans and other administrators. The results sadly were predictable. >

I don't think it was the faculty choice. >

It was, historically. There are still some remnants of shared governance at universities (the deans are technically professors, so is the Provost, often there is a faculty Senate that votes on things, etc). But power concentrated in the administrative class over time. >

I understand that. I'm just not so sure it was faculty who initiated or wanted such a switch. A few years ago a paper came out that, if I remember correctly, put this shift on college BoTs (at least at state institutions). >

More protection of "free speech" by Republicans who bemoan "cancel culture."  Is there a word for hypocrisy beyond just hypocrisy? >

The etymology isn't clear.  "hypercrisy" just looks like a misspelling.
Attacking academic freedom is not usually the act of "freedom fighters". It's more aligned with tyrannical regimes.  Iran comes to mind. >

Since the Greek word 'hypo' actually means 'below' or 'under', 'hyper' would be the exact opposite, meaning 'above'. Bathocrisy would at least be linguistically okay, but that's all a Classics degree gets you. >

I'm trying to work something out with elachistos but I'm losing ground.
Elachicrisy sounds and looks bogus, elachistocrisy seems unwieldy. >

Wow, conservatives being anti-intellectual? What else is new? >

Water either is or is not wet. 🤷🏻‍♂️ >

The headline should be "REPUBLICANS take aim at tenure for university professors". It's pretty much the same thing, but I hate how republicans escape being called out in the media. >

The GOPs unwritten policies:
Anti-gun law
anti-healthcare 
anti-education 
anti-worker rights
anti-choice
anti-voter rights
anti-oversight 
anti-human rights 
anti-science
They are however pro-corporate bailouts and are very supportive of russian oligarchs and their anti-democracy agenda against countries that insist on being…democratic >

They want a nation of exploited slaves, without having to actually pay for the care of those slaves. >

They want their own "march through the institutions"...just to harken back to a time long left behind. A time that only existed in their self-deluded, misremembering minds. 
The dangers of what these Dodos are laying groundwork for, putting in place through the courts, via school boards, and other so-called "culture war issues" won't be felt for years to come. 
And yes, it's all ultimately in service of minority rule a la Apartheid South Africa. 
The flickering embers of a dying flame are gasping for one last breath of oxygen. 
I can only hope they will be starved of it but I've been seeing Jim Crow politics make a slow resurgence over the last 15yrs and it's only going to get worse in these relics' deaththrows before it gets better. >

Republicans hate free speech. Sad. >

I see one misconception that this article promotes: tenure is not a perk. It is not a lifetime appointment. It is not the freedom to say whatever with no repercussions. It doesn't protect professors from laziness and incompetence.  Tenure simply guarantees due process and a hearing prior to an educator being let go.
Without tenure, professors would be forced to refrain from any controversial topics in their classes, and those controversial topics would go unaddressed by the education system. This might not seem like a problem, until you realize that the most extreme 20% of the population determines which topics are controversial at any one time. >

No it doesn't.  I saw on a sitcom once that tenure means they can't be fired, so obviously that's the truth.
/s >

"I love the poorly educated!" >

This is another example of conservatives scrambling to slam the barn door shut after the horses escaped. A desperate tantrum from a dying party. Their last death spasms will be attempts to pull the building down on top of us all. Stay tuned for the upcoming debt ceiling fight. Republicans will see an engineered global financial crisis as a final opportunity to remake the world in their image. >

Conservatives have been successfully targeting tenure for many years now under the guise of “education reform.” It’s a sham. True education reform increases access to education by lowering cost and improving access, not shutting down the voices of those who have opinions with which you do not agree. Republicans have been radicalized on this issue ever since the Reagan era. >

This is some serious Fascist nonsense here... The Conservative Confederate Republican Klan wants to erase the US history... >

Go outside >

Tenure? That's rare already since most colleges are using adjuncts to take on the same course loads, but with lower pay, no retirement and no benefits. Tenure might as well not exist anyway because of how shit University practices are. >

Yes, and adjuncts are easy to “not renew” for any cause, like in the recent case where the instructor was not renewed because she showed medieval images of Mohammad in an Art History course.
Tenure is a necessary to fight against a huge and still growing political administration. >

were they removed for promoting Islam, or for breaking the tenet of depicting Mohammad? either reason is ludicrous. >

I've spent a ton of time in academia and agree that some reform to the tenure process and lifetime appointments is needed.  On one hand it allows professors to go "outside of the box" and research things that may not be hot topic grant issues without fear of repercussion, but it also leads to many lazy professors who know they are untouchable and don't have to put in any work to take a paycheck.  We've all had that 65 year old professor who hasn't changed his class or minted a new PhD in over 15 years.
However, you shouldn't assault professorships for political reasons. That's just asinine. >

Then start phasing it out of offer letters. Don't promise it so someone takes the job instead of going to industry where the pay and, often, work-life balance are better then take it away mid- or late-career. That's just not cricket. >

Almost no faculty are offered tenure when hired unless they are being poached from somewhere whey they already have tenure or will soon earn tenure. There is a process to earn it after being hired. >

Of course. But the prospect of tenure is there and colors decisions. And it's the same story for those who work hard for 6 years and are awarded tenure. They devote their lives to the job partly due to tenure. You can't just pull that out from under them. >

Well, by definition you can’t have tenure taken away from you. But you can lose it due to incompetence, malfeasance, or moral turpitude.  But that takes a long time with regard to violations, evidence, reprimands, etc. >


by definition you can’t have tenure taken away from you

That's what this whole discussion is about, though. Stripping the protections of tenure from those who already attained it. >

That is exceptionally difficult to do regardless of the competency of the professor and regardless of the politics. The reason being AAUP — Am Assoc of U Profs.  most universities have enough AAUP members among the tenured professors that any tenured professor that risks loss of tenure will have AAUP step in and take a very close look. If AAUP decides that the loss of employment for a tenured professor was not by the book, AAUP will publicize that and it makes it very difficult for the university to recruit talent.
Maybe things have changed I have been out of academia for over 20 years, but back in the day you heard very quick if a faculty member lost tenure, you heard why, and it rarely happened to a competent professor, and when it did it was usually a budget issue. >

Yeah, the AAUP stands up for a lot of the bs raining down these days. But (a) not every institution's faculty are eligible to join (e.g. many private institutions), and (b) it's not all-powerful. Not only can financial exigency be called for myriad reasons, allowing them to fire tenured faculty, but it can be chipped away at by the state (see GA in the past couple years). Again, that's what this conversation is about - whether or not these conservative f*wads can fire tenured faculty without reasonable cause. >

I don’t disagree with what you say other than I think it is past the “whether or not” period and we are now in “they plan to do it and it needs to be an all hands on deck issue for faculty” yes I am looking at Florida, and my aunt retired from UT Austin a few years ago and she told me things were getting worse. >

I'm at a small private institution and hope to just retire early, once my kids are through university. I can't afford it - I've been an academic my whole life - but my partner and I can live on her modest salary when it's just us. It's not the job I expected it to be twenty years ago. >

Small government and freedom loving conservatism in action! >

Please stop calling this fascist pro-ignorance mob “conservative.” >

This is what conservative people are voting for as conservative.
Conservatism is dead, and the people who engage in the process to support these sorts-conservative people are mostly just displaced and don't understand that yet. >

Republicans hate education.  So they're going after the universities like the German nazis did. >

As usual, Conservatives are shooting themselves in the foot. Some of the best professors may just go elsewhere. Universities in liberal states can offer them the freedom & stability that tenure brings. However, lets ignore the moral and educational impacts of for a minute. 
It’s well known that universities & educational institutions are massive drivers of state, regional, & local economies. Most obviously are the local services, restaurants, and shops that directly benefit from the money students & staff bring in. 
Less obviously, the innovation, expertise, and research that arises from good universities & professors can lead to the formation of new businesses & ventures. 
Students may stay in the area to work or start businesses. Silicon Valley is one example of this effect. California doesn’t have an insanely big economy because it has a lack of universities & colleges. This will hurt conservative regions in the long run. >

I love how they are too stupid to see the end result will just be to brain drain themselves.  That sounds great until you realize the brains are the backbone of your economy not Jethro in his single wide with the giant trump flag over it >

Yet another strike at intellectuals. Republicans don’t like smart people unless they’re doing their bidding. It’s hard to dupe people with your lies if they’re smart enough to call you out on your self serving bullshit. >

Protection from political influence is exactly the point of tenureship >

Only authoritarians target academia and the press. >

Party of small government, amirite? >

I wonder what conservatives’ explanation is for the fact that the vast majority of tenured professors are liberal.  Is it Soros or something?  The real reason, that being intelligent and well-educated and conservative are incompatible, would be difficult for them to admit. >

They're going after professors now? Anything to avoid fixing actual problems. >

Just for those who didn’t read the article:
Texan politician wanted to remove critical race theory from the classroom.
Faculty said no. 
Politician then makes suggestions that tenure should be removed (to make it easier to fire those who stood up to him).
The whole scenario shows how much tenure is actually needed. >

Surprised this wasn’t brought up sooner. This politician is literally bullying them. “Don’t want to change your syllabus? Say bye to job security.” It’s a dangerous precedent. >

It used to be that leading conservative thinkers would challenge leading liberal thinkers in spirited and nuanced debates. Now that there are no more conservative thinkers, the remaining petulant lightweights require silencing and censorship of others for their ideas to get any oxygen. >

Politics went from a somewhat respectable debate-based thing into a screaming match where half the time the politicians don't even pretend to care about the people. >

PBS Newshour's Friday episodes have a left vs right segment that is close to debates I remember but their "right" representative has pretty much gotten Overton'd out of the Republican party. David Brooks is the last "conservative" thinker with a platform. The left is rep'd by Jonathan Capehart who I think is excellent but has not yet reached the level of the person he replaced, Mark Shields, my all-time favorite liberal voice (RIP). >

Idiocracy wasn’t meant to be a documentary but here we are >


When Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick asked Texas colleges to disavow critical race theory, the University of Texas faculty approved a resolution defending their freedom to decide for themselves how to teach about race.

[Patrick said he took it as a message to “go to hell.”

In turn, Patrick, a Republican, said it was time to consider holding the faculty accountable, by targeting one of the top perks of their jobs.
“Maybe we need to look at tenure,” Patrick said at a news conference in November.

Dan Patrick offered a bounty of $25k for tips that lead to convictions for voting fraud in the 2020 election.
He thought that would crack open the Democratic conspiracy
But he ended up having to pay Democrats who reported Republicans who had voted twice.
Dan Patrick really doesn't give a shit if something is real or not. If he can use it to scare his constituents and keep them angry at dem libs then he'll use it by gum >

Wait, wait.... what about small government, de-regulation and the free market? >

Anyone who has an issue with stupid people should take note at the full range of attacks on our education system. From pre-school teachers to professors, aides/cafeteria workers/sports programs and bathrooms. Anything to destroy but not replace, unless you can afford private school! 
These people are afraid of intelligence as it may hurt profits. Barefoot and pregnant wife with a husband who works 2 FT jobs for every person in America. Saddled with debt, just to live. It’s the corporate dream. Don’t forget to toss extra cash in the til on Sunday for the tax free haven to enrich itself further on your dime! >

Kind of moot, since universities are replacing retiring tenured professors with adjuncts. They need to hoard all the university’s money for the legion of unnecessary administrators they keep hiring
EDIT - Added missing word >

Tenured prof here.  Fun fact: nearly every professor, certainly in a STEM field, can make twice the salary in the private industry.  Tenure is one of the VERY few perks of the job.  The science we produce is for the public good, not for a single company.  You push every researcher into companies you will only make it more expensive to get the technological advances you all enjoy.
A lot of us are looking for the door as it is.  Ridding us of tenure won't hurt us economically, but it sure as shit will impact students and public investments in science. >

Universities will lose their accreditation >

There will be a new accreditation. PhDs in assault rifology, creation science, insurrectionism, white history. >

You will then have the shittiest faculties in the US: why would go to the Texas system when I can get tenure elsewhere.
The irony, of course, is that tenure is specifically designed to prevent this kind of coercion to teach what the power structure wants you to teach.  It is called "academic freedom." >

Education is the enemy of conservatism >

Vote in stupid people, and get stupid ideas. >

Yeah they love to attack education, smart people don’t vote Republican. >

'Fascists say Fascist and anti-intellectual things' >

As the GOP becomes more powerful, they are more eager to bring any thought or idea under political control.  In history, I'm sure that never turned into anything bad, right? >

Conservatives want to destroy education. Teaching science and facts are against everything they stand for. Look what they have done to Floridas education system already. Why are conservatives such bottom feeding wastes of life? >

Of course conservatives are taking aim at tenure for professors, it means colleges can remove benefits, salaries, job stability, make them all semester to semester adjuncts and pay they slave wages. As a former adjunct professor, I saw the transition from decreasing tenure track positions to increasing adjunct positions, and it had everything to do with maximizing profits for the college as a corporate model, and taking power away from professors. Many adjunct positions, like mine, have extremely low pay and no job security, because your position is based on whether you get given a class to teach from semester to semester. This is far cheaper for the college, because since you’re not considered a full time employee, you don’t have to pay you during the holidays, they only pay you per class (as opposed to full time employees who get paid salary) and you had far fewer protections against being fired, cause all they had to do with not give you a class the following semester, and you’re essentially out of a job. I taught at 3 different colleges at a time, a class or 2 at each one, because I had to piece together classes to make enough to live… many of my colleagues were in the same position. And forget about sabbaticals to actually do the work and research in your field that makes you an expert in your subject, you have to do that on your own time outside of teaching… any lone who’s taught adjunct at 3 different colleges at a time knows just how draining and time consuming that is, and knows how hard it is to get your research done on top of it. This is why tenure is so important, it not only gives you a living wage and job stability, but allows you the times to do the research you need to do. It’s absolutely shocking how teachers, and especially adjunct professors, are treated in this country… the conservative US is anti-education, cause attacking education not only keeps their constituents stupid, which makes them more likely to vote conservative, but also helps profit their friends at the administrative level of universities. >

Also known as "how to guarantee your state colleges are worthless and drive everyone who makes more than minimum wage out of your state."  
No researchers are going to want to live in states where they can't get tenure.  Even professors who aren't politically inclined are going to look at offers from colleges in these states and compare them to offers from other colleges and go, "Hrmm...should I go for the job where I don't have to worry about my contract not being renewed?  Or should I go for the job that I only know I'll have for 9 months at a time?"  It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out which one of those is the better option.  
So, all the best researchers and teachers are going to go to other schools, leaving these states with, at best, the B team.  That's going to drastically impact the amount of grant money coming into the university, which is going to make tuition more expensive while simultaneously making the quality of education worse.  So fewer students are going to enroll, with the rest going out of state, and staying out of state.  
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This cascade continues, basically winding up in a massive exodus of skilled (and high-paid, therefor most-taxed) jobs, wiping out state budgets, and plunging these states into local depressions.  
Fuck it, let 'em.  They deserve it. >

Cops and veterans can be the professors! >

This is what fascism and tyranny looks like.  Fuck the Republican party.  They are a bunch of goddamn nazis who hate freedom. >

Race to the bottom in education.  MAGA Madrasas. >

they hate education, of course they would. >

Someone please correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t professors granted tenure by other tenured professors? It’s sounds like the party of no government oversight wanting to have oversight over a self governing group >

Typical conservative playbook. Can't win on merit so they stack the deck. >

Lawmakers targeting faculty because they disagree with the focus of their research and instruction. This is exactly why tenure exists in the first place. >

Ah, the continued purge of "intellectuals."
Not fascist at all! >

“Morons attack smart people for making them feel insecure.” >

Why are conservatives so hell bent on getting people fired from their jobs? >

This is not out of character for Kansas at all. Always opposed that reading riting and rithmatic. 
And certainly well within character for "conservative thought." >

This is literal Nazi playbook stuff.
Conservatives are behaving as Nazis and it's very much on purpose. Because they (certain members of them; not all conservatives; calm down) actually are Nazis in every aspect but the membership card.
Why are there not consequences for this brazen and public ongoing war on decent human society? They whine and beat their chests about the war on christmas but they hate that anyone outside of their elite establishment may get a decent education?
Stop comparing this shit to Harry Potter characters or making funny jokes and meme references. There's a great reference that's very appropriate. This is Nazi strategy.
There are issues with long term untouchable academic tenure. Sure. I've worked in the education system. This particular push and their (you know who) overall mindset does not look at those concerns. This is an attack on education because a stupid populace is easier to subjugate and control.
edit: if anyone thinks I'm being hyperbolic do a bare minimum of research about mid-century german sociopolitical ideology and learn why in large part the US won the race for the Nuclear Weapon technology and after the war why we won the Space Race. >

Tenure doesn't really exist in Florida anymore, thanks to DeSantis. 
Every five years, "tenured" professors have to be reviewed by a board of political appointees. That defeats the entire point of tenure. It's gone. >

Weird, I thought conservatives were grown adults that had something important to do with their time.  Guess not. >

Which is part of a larger attack on higher education and education in general. >

Conservatives? I thought they were about leaving the guvment out of things. Wow, the country just gets stoopiderer. >

yeah, get rid of the situation that allows very old white guys to keep their jobs regardless of merit. See how that's going to work for you, conservatives. >

You gotta give it to the conservatives.  They play the long game.  We can learn a thing or two. >

… while maintaining tenure for the supreme court >

This country is a third world shithole >

Nah- the red states are shitholes, but the rest isn’t too bad. >

I strongly disagree with just about every conservative position on nearly any issue, but painting with a broad brush like this is exactly the kind of “us vs them” mentality that the GOP actively works to stoke. Red states aren’t shitholes, and they are full of tons of empathetic, hardworking people who don’t support the harmful ideologies of their state leadership. 
Red states are frequently crippled by poverty, gerrymandering, lack of access to quality healthcare and housing, and so many other issues that Republican government either actively encourage or fail to adequately address. You can hate the politicians who take advantage of these circumstances, but you should more so pity the shortsightedness of the many people in the American South and Midwest who have been brainwashed for decades to vote against their own interests just to “own the libs.” >

This is the equivalent of external economic sanctions. >

Until they put term limits on senate, congress and ,Supreme Court the conservatives need to shut up and sit down. >

I get the distinct feeling this will not apply to professors that say stuff they like. >

Great. Thanks. That's the only secure teaching jobs anymore >

…But not Supreme Court Justices. >

This is funny considering part of tenure is protecting free speech for professors. >

More more concerned with that than school shootings.  That’s on brand. >

Thank good god Dems held on to the senate >

Tenure, that thing we set up to prevent special interests from destroying the educational process in short order.  Let's keep that.
Its should be difficult to remove a teacher after tenure. Once they have reach tenure, they have proven to be working in the common good because they should discarded before then if not.  At this point we should shield them from political and short term special interests. >

I thought they were into small government and less interference from same...
/s >

This just means they want profs fired so they can put cult loons in >

Fucking republicans >

Nothing like conservatives blatantly proving they don't care about "viewpoint discrimination" when it benefits their agenda. >

When conservative politicians are done, only conservative politicians will have an income in their old age. >

This is the plan. Cushy political gigs for those who kiss Ron Maosantis's ass, granny police and struggle sessions for the rest of us. The Republican Cultural Revolution is leaping forward greatly. >

Republicans have been fantasizing about this since I was a kid. >

Look what happen in Alaska and Louisiana- the Proffesors left for other schools >

Sounds about reich >

I live near Univ. of Colo. About five years ago the university began a conservative academic studies dept in response to righty pressure. Guess who they hired as a chairman to show the libs the value of conservative thought…john eastman. O I see what serious conservatives are now. >

This isn't new but MAGA gave the Conservatives a sense of zeal and to take the masks off... >

articles like this need to preface: "in Texas."
yeah, Texas is a shit hole. not even a little surprised that they're pulling this nonsense. >

Conservative orthodoxy has always been built on their religious and bigoted superstitions. Scientific research throughout history erodes social conservatism's perspectives, but that ideology persists because of the mental inflexibility of conservatives to incorporate new information into their world views. >

Honestly, as a liberal person in a blue state, I agree. I’m a student right now and I’ve seen professors brag about how they’re tenured and then teach like shit. It’s like once their tenured they can do what they want. Example: this professor of mine made us attend her lecture outside of class time and made us pay to enter or we’d lose a quiz grade. People complained yet nothing happened cuz she was tenured. Instead of giving them immunity it should be reworked. Not by the insurrectionists though. >

So, conservatives want to force private institutions to do something?
Sounds like fascism to me. >

Sad this is all happening. I guess the lack of action and accountability in the USA made it even more ok for insurrectionist to run free in countries all around the world. >

Everyone should go to Carousel at age 30. >

We really need to go after term limits…. >

Ironic, considering tenure was created specifically for this reason. >

Isn’t this always the authoritarian tactic? They attack the education system and the educated that stand in their way of creating a culture that is blind to anything but their message. It’s the first steps of like what Mao did by throwing all the educated classes into the fields or killing them. >

Tenure is pretty dumb, but if we're going to ban lifetime appointments we should ban all lifetime appointments and not pick and choose which ones are better than others. >

There’s a lot wrong in the Michigan public education system where I live.  However, there is a constitutional requirement that universities remain independent of the rest of government, meaning when the republicans were in charge they couldn’t change the tenure system even though they tried under John Engler.  Ironically, Engler was appointed interim president of Michigan State, and he was eventually ousted for incompetence.  More states should adopt this model of independence. >

Why bother? Just let declining admissions and absurd admin salaries do the same thing over the next decade. Sure, it'll take a little longer, but it's far simpler way to hamstring higher ed >

Once again the party of small government seeks to insinuate itself into areas it does not belong. They are not conservatives; they are the fascist far right! >

And are quietly filling administrative slots with many social platforms in order to infiltrate the last vestiges of intelligence available to most. And they censor what they do not like. And if it aint god or trump or shooting protestors (apparently the single biggest fear for chicken hawks is unarmed protestors), then say sayonara sucker! Your ass is mute.
Censorship is alive and well in America and if republicans are saying the democrats are doing it then you can bet your ass the democrats aren't doing it and the republicans are. >

They will oppose tenure until they have the last free thinking professor out of school. Then when they have installed their handpicked conservative religious zealots in all the university’s watch how fast they reinstitute tenure >

Examples: liberty, hillsdale. >

It will never not be funny to me that conservatives are at war with education. Almost as if being worldly and educated is the Achilles heel of conservatism. Hard to be a conservative when you are made more aware of the complexity of the world and how it works. >

Is this what small government looks like? >

Is there anything more "big government" than removing academic freedom? >

Honestly, there are a ton of professors who shouldn’t have tenure out there, i’m not against this being changed or adapted to be more fair. >

My alma mater, The University of Georgia, continues to promote their collegiate football program with all possible energy, trying to capitalize on a team of athletes to offset any student losses (our enrollment is stable and growing due to the fame of the team). Come join me tomorrow as they play for the national championship. Go Dogs!! >

They really are trying to dumb us all down to their level. Eventually we will be reading and writing on a pre-school level and a new dark ages will descent upon the world. With a little luck, soon after that the common cold will wipe humanity from the face of the earth. >

The GOP is at war with progress. >

It's a culture war, after all >

Cant let Texas actually turn the corner to be an economic powerhouse because they will lose control of it >

Keeping the populace dumb - the GOP way. >

What a bunch of hypocritical morons. >

How about taking aim at the deans that make millions for doing nothing >

Some under educated under achievers voted for those creeps. >

…explaining why tenure exists in the first place. >

But they’re all against term limits. >

Republicans' behavior is the best argument in favor of tenure. >

Conservatives kicking the brain drain into overdrive. >

Hold up, didn’t Nazis go after the academia too? >

Texans have always feared people learning the truth about Texas. >

Can't have intellectuals.  Bad for the country dontcha know. >

As a professor, I feel like I need to buy a fedora and lurk creepily around corners or I’m just not doing it right. >

There are some real issues with the tenure system, and academic compensation overall, but I’m pretty sure conservatives are not trying to address those issues.  how can the government interfere in this type of employment agreement, that I think is defined via employment contract? >

Keep in mind, a majority of colleges are State funded & managed. The Feds have little to no involvement in them other than the loans to compensate for State funding shortfalls. US Congress members just make a lot of noise.
State Govts can pretty much affect the schools however they want and local conservatives like to insert politics in whenever it tickles them. >

This will make college more expensive since it will drive professors out of the job >

They must have saw glass onion and got really excited about being disruptors >

They need to concentrate on their own tenure. >

They’ll have to beat university administration to it. Tenure has been getting destroyed by schools for years already. Tenured professors have been getting replaced by adjunct across the U.S, even at the expense of thriving programs. Berkeley tanked it’s own renown ceramics program when Richard Shaw retired, replacing him with cheap adjuncts. I had a friend bought out of his tenure position for his full year salary, pushed to retire early and be replaced with adjunct. >

Dismantling education is very Stalin of them