Posted by AAL on November 5, 2007
I have cleaned out my office and cleaned up my computer and removed all of my intellectual property from the website. That was fun and funny. Miserly tried to demand that I put it back! I had quite a good laugh over that! He just doesn’t get it – He has no power over me…
Freedom awaits…
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Posted by AAL on November 2, 2007
Coming from industry where there is a clear chain of command and recourse for harassment, tenure is odd. It is a system that is supposed to protect academic freedom, but I ask “For who?” Certainly not for new un-tenured faculty members who don’t toe the line with their departments. It is human nature for some to fear new ideas, new ways of working – they don’t have the desire or the ability to rethink their positions or to learn new things.
In many departments this would not be a problem. I have even heard that there are department where the tenured faculty members continue to work hard and actually encourage the new faculty members in their endeavors.
The attitude of resistance to new ideas is a recipe for disaster in places like Library, places that can’t remain relevant without keeping up with what’s new.
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Posted by AAL on October 24, 2007
I find it interesting that it is so difficult to find someone at the University who actually cares about bad behavior of tenured faculty members. Administration is considered the “enemy” and not an avenue for redress, social equity is only concerned with discrimination issues, the union will only fight the administration (as long as they are not friends – which the union president admitted to me that they were!), and human resources is somewhere in the middle listening to whoever comes their way but not necessarily solving any problems.
Even though I have for all intents and purposes left and am just collecting on some of my sick days, I took some time to look into this situation and it is not a good one, especially for the mission of the university.
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Posted by AAL on May 1, 2007
Doc and I are planning our exit strategies. The handwriting has been on the wall from early on – tenure faculty are intimidated by new ideas and initiatives and we thought that was what we were hired for? Our mistake….
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