Timeline for In practice, how secure is a tenured position in the US?
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| Jan 2, 2017 at 22:37 | comment | added | Jacob Murray Wakem | @Davidmh My understanding is that the students have the right to choose and that this was outside of class time. | |
| Nov 1, 2014 at 21:02 | comment | added | Miguel | @BenCrowell While interesting to read, I can't bring myself to upvote your comment... | |
| Oct 31, 2014 at 20:22 | comment | added | user1482 | A tenured prof can get fired for serious misconduct. For example, a tenured biology teacher at my school walked into class with a live chicken and without saying a word, he smashed the chicken's head on the podium, killing it, and spattering a woman in the front row with blood. He was fired. | |
| Oct 31, 2014 at 18:07 | answer | added | Franck Dernoncourt | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 18, 2014 at 13:05 | history | edited | enthu |
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| Aug 3, 2014 at 11:51 | comment | added | Davidmh | @FedericoPoloni I think the problem was that it was illegal. Doing "controversial research" is one thing, risking your student's health is another. | |
| Aug 3, 2014 at 4:26 | answer | added | Andreas Blass | timeline score: 7 | |
| Aug 3, 2014 at 3:41 | history | edited | RoboKaren | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Fixed ass. professor to associate professor.
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| Nov 28, 2012 at 21:52 | comment | added | Federico Poloni | @SamuelReid ironic, that seems exactly the thing that tenure was invented to avoid: quoting Wikipedia, *Academic tenure is primarily intended to guarantee the right to academic freedom: it protects teachers and researchers when they dissent from prevailing opinion, openly disagree with authorities of any sort, or spend time on unfashionable topics. [...] The intent of tenure is to allow original ideas to be more likely to arise, by giving scholars the intellectual autonomy to investigate the problems and solutions about which they are most passionate, and to report their honest conclusions. | |
| Nov 28, 2012 at 21:47 | comment | added | Federico Poloni | Personally, I'd avoid the abbreviation "ass. professor" - that might be considered rude if one doesn't see the dot at first glance. :) | |
| Nov 28, 2012 at 20:50 | answer | added | user244795 | timeline score: 13 | |
| Jun 3, 2012 at 21:19 | comment | added | Samuel Reid | Richard Alpert (Ram Dass) and Timothy Leary were Harvard psychology professors which were fired from Tenure due to giving shrooms to undergraduates and doing illegal drug research. | |
| Feb 26, 2012 at 5:34 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackAcademia/status/173642111768461313 | ||
| Feb 17, 2012 at 8:26 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | moved from User.Id=102 by developer User.Id=8375 | |
| Feb 17, 2012 at 7:20 | answer | added | aeismail | timeline score: 32 | |
| Feb 17, 2012 at 6:38 | answer | added | Noah Snyder | timeline score: 27 | |
| Feb 16, 2012 at 22:02 | answer | added | eykanal | timeline score: 40 | |
| Feb 16, 2012 at 21:05 | history | asked | user102 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |