[Vision2020] UI to Furlough Employees

[Garrett Clevenger]

"We've all had them:  professors/instructors whose teaching skills are horrible, who have retired on the job, and/or whose so-called research is at best cream puffery, and at worst nearly worthless garbage.  There needs to be a way of getting these ineffective performers off the payroll."




From my experience being a student and working at wsu for 15 years, tenure seems to promote complacent faculty who don't do their job adequately.


No one wants to pay thousands of dollars per semester to be stuck with a crappy professor, but it happens all the time.


Despite receiving consistent negative feedback from student reviews, tenured faculty really are not accountable.


Once they have tenure, it's unlikely bad faculty would be terminated and replaced with someone more competent.


Tenure reform would be at the top of my list if I were looking at ways to make the educational experience more rewarding for students while insuring dead-weight faculty don't bring the institution down.


This would have to be across the board for public higher education to insure equal hiring incentives.


Why should some university employees receive elite treatment while most workers don't have such guarantees?  
Tenure may have had a good purpose, but the unintended consequences don't seems worth it.


Obviously those with tenure see this differently...




Garrett Clevenger
Garrett Clevenger
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