The right's war on tenure is really a war against experts.
from a Florida bill that would have allowed a university's trustees to demand a review of a professor's tenure"at any time."
Wednesday, conservatives whom Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed to the board of trustees at New College of Florida controversially voted toTenure is widely misunderstood. It’s a mechanism that binds a school to a scholar, potentially for decades. That’s because it guarantees a lifetime appointment after a researcher and/or teacher has passed a rigorous probationary period of usually six years. Once tenured, professors are exceedingly difficult to fire.
Critics imagine the tenure system to be a vast afforestation project that yields metric tons of “dead wood,” a term higher-ed insiders use to describe scholars who stop working the moment they are granted tenure and live large for decades. This vision of whiny, wine-and-cheese-consuming layabouts is quite the cliché.
is one of the more extreme versions of the widespread Republican attack on the American professoriate. It’s also quite fascinating in that it links the GOP’s aversion to academe with its regressive racial politics.
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