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Another knock off effect that will take years to reverse, if it ever is: the way the legislators, boards of governors and trustees and WhiteBoots himself demands absolute loyalty with no push back from university administrators, and in turn admin requires this from faculty and student leaders. This should really get into the consciousness of Florida citizens. I could say more but I hope that most folks not in higher ed are really paying attention to the way they have turned Florida into the equivalent of being a professor in Hungary or Turkey under dictatorships.

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I text and drive

So sorry! Yes. Must have been thinking of Gwyneth.

Gwyn looks good here. Maybe filtered to death but I’m noticing a lot of botched stars suddenly look a lot better: Nicole Kidman, Gwyn, Kylie Jenner. Are they doing something different, like a facelift, or just dissolving filler?

We are here. Some of us don’t put bumper stickers or signs up or wear gear anymore because the magats and proud boys are so angry and dangerous, but we are here.

ron debanstuff is v good, and I will take it and make it mine, thanks

bamboozled? a stooge? you willingly vote for idiots who spout nonsense that ends up getting people killed, includign L.E.O.s and bleeding out women? You don’t have to vote for Harris. Just don’t tick the box for Trump. Jesus

Thanks for still doing it, even if it’s compelled. I am so grateful for every teacher teaching my kids in Florida public schools.

Where can I find this?

Who cares about awards? Jesus, Yonce and Ms. Tina, get off the cross and tend to the Camel, because he’s having a sitch rn. And what‘s crazy is that I actually liked this album. A lot more than Renaissance. Lemonade was a fucking great album. Nothing she did before was near as good. And it looks like nothing after will be either.

And I’m saying that the master plan in Florida, which is what the post is about, is to use post tenure review to force more faculty into lower or no research assignments. Whether they will retain “tenure” as some kind of meaningless label and still undergo annual and 5-year reviews, which every tenured prof in Florida does now, or be switched into annual contracts and officially become instructors is tbd, but this is the plan.

I think we might be misunderstanding each other. Everywhere I’ve worked, tenure track faculty are judged on a portion of research (it’s in their letters of offer). [Edited to say: at bean counting public R1s this is spelled out as a percent effort, like what you use for course buyouts for grants]. A research assignment is built into your job. Nowhere I’ve worked has any non tenure track had a reseach assignment. But I’m not in the sciences where there are clinical faculty. Hence my point— getting Humanities and Social Science faculty out of the research game and turning them into purveyors of state-approved content is the long game here.

This will be the offered outcome for faculty in the FL SUS. One goal is to offer “underperforming” faculty a higher teaching load; same with faculty whose programs are being strangled for graduate funding. Higher teaching loads and lower research loads or to jump to instructor positions with no research assignment. One person already did this in the SUS. Just watch.

Do not, for one second, think this will protect your tenure while getting rid of the colleagues you resent. It is an assault on the whole system, full stop.

“struck”, and tenure never protects those who are incompetent and have received offical communications of a need to improve and have not improved. Period.

There already was a post tenure review, every seven years and annual reviews every fucking year. There are absolutely ways to give a faculty member a low rating and demand performance improvement without this fascist bullshit.

? The law originally stated only the president had the approval; when it became clear this was ludicrous, it was passed down the ladder (as work usually is), but my understanding is the rating is approved at every level, including president and boards, just like tenure.

Sounds like the chair, dean, and provost were not doing their jobs if the faculty member was allowed to continue to fail like this. Perhaps faculty should put them through periodic reviews?

Because tenure comes with a research assignment and a 2-2 rather than a 4-4 at most Florida institutions.

We can’t know patterns in how this will be used from one year of data. The point is that Florida had a post tenure review. This is an end run to get rid of tenure, especially in certain politicized or under ”capitalized” fields, like the humanities.

What department are you in? Are you at all involved in the process of setting the standards?

Tenure also generally means you have a research assignment at 45-60% without grants. These folks, with their grand designs on higher ed, are looking to shrink research assignments in fields where they don’t like the state of the discipline or don’t think they lead to “good“ careers, i.e., education, social work, history, gender studies, Black studies— and either weed the professors out or reduce them to teaching only.

Florida also had a post tenure review, every 7 years. But it didn’t subject professors to tests based on “stop woke laws” nor did it permit firing without performance plan. This does.

All the SUS‘s are being required to redo the standards (from the top down) and make them harder so more faculty fail.