Indiana lawmakers are considering a legislation that would restrict tenure at state colleges and universities and partially alter the priorities of diversity, equity and inclusion at these institutions.

I’m curious if anyone feels they get the same degree of workplace protection the concept of tenure for professors?

  • Some contractors get protection if it’s built into their contracts
  • Unions create termination restrictions
  • Military gets sanctuary for their last two years before twenty years service, then usually kicked out, unless they’re generals
  • you can’t legally fire someone because color, religion, orientation, etc

What makes professors different or not different?

You can fire retail workers for anything not illegal

Based on your stance, if professors should be special, why?

If not, do you believe we won’t get good ones all the sudden if they can’t have tenure?

I’ll try to find specific arguments made by opposing legislation, but but not necessarily asking for people just to verbally slay conservative/liberals. There’s already a million posts for that.

  • RedFoxOPEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Not surprisingly, I cannot find any supporters of elimination of tenure who work in academia and are not politicians.

    I’d like to find some concrete support for this idea that isn’t totally motivated by political division, conservative vs prog/lib. 🤔