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Student Finally Gets What Professor Was Talking About All Those Years Ago

Posted on Friday, February 19th 2010
Tags: criteria, evaluations, feedback, standards, teaching, tenure
Student Finally Gets What Professor Was Talking About All Those Years Ago
Greg Dierstein, a freshman in Professor Romano’s literature seminar in 1993, woke up at 3:00 a.m. last night with an enlightened revelation. “I think Dr. Romano was right when he said reading and writing are really important in the real world,” said Greg. “I’m going to start using spellcheck so I can get that promotion [...]

Colleges Fear Repercussions of Not Granting Tenure to Jerk

Posted on Wednesday, February 3rd 2010
Tags: behavior, bill, civility, collegiality, criteria, faculty, politics, reader, tenure, william
Colleges Fear Repercussions of Not Granting Tenure to Jerk
Universities have begun sending lobbyists from both academic and financial affairs to Ohio University in hopes of influencing a particularly contentious impending tenure decision. Heated debate surrounds the alleged uncivil behavior of tenure candidate, Bill Reader. “Every campus gives tenure and promotions to cantankerous egomaniacs,” said one lobbyist from an academic affairs advocacy group. “It’s [...]

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