I think this goes far beyond complaining about getting fired, and delves into the pernicious attitudes of the department&#x27;s faculty. For example:<p><i>&quot;Given the success I am having with students, one might think that the Mathematics Department leadership would be expressing curiosity about how I am achieving that success. Instead, Craig Evans [the interim chair of the department] in early 2014 asked me &#x27;If you had a job at McDonalds and came along with all these new ideas, how long do you think you&#x27;d carry on working there?&#x27; The fact that the now Interim Chair of the UC Berkeley Mathematics Department should compare undergraduate education to fast food reveals everything you need to know about how students are regarded by the leading clique of men at the helm of the Mathematics Department of the number one public university in the world.&quot;</i><p>Should faculty be punished for having new ideas about teaching (which happen to be successful[1], and well-liked by students)?<p>[1] <i>&quot;My Fall 2013 Math 1A students were tracked into the next course in the sequence, Math 1B, and it was found that their average grade in Math 1B was 0.17 grade points higher than that of those students who took Math 1A with another instructor.&quot;</i>