In the early Republican period, Luo Longji, a student at Tsinghua University (then located in mainland China), stayed at the school fornine years, and he chased off three university presidents. So the situation of today's university professors is by no means unprecedented.
民初清華大學就有一位名叫羅隆基的學生以「九載清華、三趕校長」的事蹟自豪，因此，今日大學教師的處境並不是前所未有的歷史性衝擊。