The state legislature having required post-tenure review at Indiana University, the Trustees recently approved a Post-Tenure Review Policy. The idea is to review tenure faculty every five year andpunish or reward them based on the review. Since tenured faculty can’t be fired except for cause, cause being things like criminal convictions, gross immorality, not showing up for classes, or going senile, the hope is that the reviews will get them to work harder.
The wrong use of it's jumped off the screen at me, so thanks for your aside on that.
It strikes me that the creation of "a whole new disciplinary pathway, with dubious new criteria, and extensive new compliance and paper work" makes terrific sense as a higher ed institutional response:
1. Dubious criteria create ambiguity, a bureaucracy's sweet spot to inflict arbitrary pain on its subjects; and 2. New pathways, compliance regs, and forms create meaningless busywork, a bureaucracy's sweet spot for easier work justifying greater budget. Both increase opacity and centralize power away from faculty, for whipped cream and a cherry on top.
Eric, you are tilting at windmills. Your well thought out and very wise suggestions will, of course, be ignored. Have you ever considered running for public office?
The wrong use of it's jumped off the screen at me, so thanks for your aside on that.
It strikes me that the creation of "a whole new disciplinary pathway, with dubious new criteria, and extensive new compliance and paper work" makes terrific sense as a higher ed institutional response:
1. Dubious criteria create ambiguity, a bureaucracy's sweet spot to inflict arbitrary pain on its subjects; and 2. New pathways, compliance regs, and forms create meaningless busywork, a bureaucracy's sweet spot for easier work justifying greater budget. Both increase opacity and centralize power away from faculty, for whipped cream and a cherry on top.
From their perspective, well played.
Eric, you are tilting at windmills. Your well thought out and very wise suggestions will, of course, be ignored. Have you ever considered running for public office?