You should read Daynes take. Higher Ed Folks - This is an important article. Below is my response to Nicholas Kristof. As always, I work at an unnamed university. I do not speak for the institution. This is MY FACEBOOK PAGE, and the views expressed here are my own. Dear Mr. Kristof: I turned in a portfolio for full professor on January 15. Over the course of the past 5 years since I turned in my portfolio for tenure and promotion to associate professor, I published perhaps 200 op-eds and letters to the editor, gave many presentations on issues related to higher education, state budgets, academic freedom, healthcare, pensions, K-12 education, and the like. I was featured on the front page of several daily newspapers. I was quoted in The Chronicle of Higher Education and the Huffington Post related to my work to fight against guns on Louisiana college campuses. I denounced my governor in a speech delivered on the steps of the State Capitol, and the video was shown on several TV stations. (Gov. Bobby Jindal has cut 80 % of state funding from most college campus budgets since 2009, the worst cuts of any state in the USA.) How much of this work ended up in my promotion file this year? ZERO. I wont stop doing public service, but it is hard to recruit others in a right-to-work, deep red, higher education under siege state like my native Louisiana. The advocacy work wont count toward advancement. In fact, one of the highest paid professors on my campus (the husband of a dean) said to my face that I was committing career suicide. People are scared here, and it is mighty hard to blame them. We have more campuses under AAUP censure than any other state, and we are a small state. If I didnt have tenure, I would have already been fired. Please get to know what it is like in the trenches. --Dayne Sherman
Posted on: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 03:38:34 +0000
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