Why Do Bad Teachers Prosper?

WHY DO BAD TEACHERS PROSPER? Tenure was formally Tenure provides job security and protects the academic freedom of experienced professors. Firing a tenured professor is almost unheard of. of introduced in the US in 1915 AAUP) by the A.A.U.P. in their Declaration of Principle on Academic Freedom and SIOSsao Academic Tenure. WHY TENURE EXISTS BECAUSE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED FOR THEIR TEACHINGS SOCRATES: ATHENIAN PHILOSOPHER 470-399 B.C. CONVICTED OF HERESY for: denying the gods and corrupting the young through his teachings. CHOSE TO BE PUT TO DEATH by drinking hemlock (poison) although his students were willing to help him escape. GALILEO GALILEI: PROF. OF MATH. AND SCI. AT THE U. OF PISA 1589-1610 CONTRACT NOT RENEWED due to experiments critical of Aristotle. Later CONVICTED OF HERESY for claiming the earth revolved around the sun. JOHN T. SCOPES: TENN. HIGH SCHOOL SUB 1924-1925 INDICTED FOR TEACHING THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION, illegal under TENN. State Law (Butler Act). Found guilty and FINED, $100. All state "anti-evolution" laws were overturned 43 years later. DR. N. OLIVIERI: PHYSICIAN AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO 1988-PRESENT QUESTIONED THE SAFETY OF THE DRUG deferiprone based on her clinical trials. Apotex, her corporate sponsor and manufacturer of deferiprone DEFUNDED HER RESEARCH, AND THREATENED TO END HEA CAREER WITH LEGAL ACTIONS. IF IT'S SO IMPORTANT, WHY HAS TENURE CONSISTENTLY DROPPED SINCE 1975? 45 40 35 Full Time Tenure Faculty 30 O Adjunct Tenure Faculty 25 O Non- Tenure Faculty 20 15 10 1975 1989 1993 1995 2003 2005 2007 2009 TENURE FROM A SCHOOL'S PERSPECTIVE: EXPENSIVE CAN CAUSE CONTROVERSY Taking a stance on an unpopular issue equating to bad PR. Becoming lazy, inadequate, inflexible worker. TENURED/TENURE TRACK PROFESSOR Average Salary: $95,224. NON-TENURED FULL-TIME PROFESSOR DIFFICULTY-TO-FIRE-0-METER Average Salary: $85,973. HIGH LOW PART-TIME ADJUNCT Average Salary: $2,987/per class. Average salaries calculated across all disciplines. TENURED/TENURE TRACK DOESN'T MEAN PROFESSOR 'BETTER TEACHER' ZZz DIFFICULTY-TO-FIRE-0-METEA HIGH LOW Some have argued that tenure provides job security and incentive for incompetence. "STUDENTS LEARN RELATIVELY MORE FROM NON-TENURE LINE PROFESSORS IN THEIR NON-TENURED INTRODUCTIRY COURSES." -National Bureau of FULL-TIME Economic Research at Northwestern University AND PART TIME In 2005, a study by the Journal of Higher Education found that THE MORE TIME PROFESSORS SPEND IN ADJUNCT CLASSROOMS, THE LESS THEY GET PAID. WHAT IS ACADEMIC FREEDOM WORTH TO YOU? SOURCES: PRESENTED BY: http://muse.jhu.edu/ http://www.aaup.org/ http://adjunct.chronicle.com/ http://www.uhnres.utoronto.ca/ http://www.nber.org/papers/w19406 http://www.higheredjobs.com/salary/ http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/books/review/Shea-t.html?_r=0 http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/09/charts-college-presidents-overpaid-pay http://www.academicmatters.ca/2012/05/tenure-and-academic-freedom-the-beginning-of-the-end/ http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/09/are-teured-professors-really-worse-teachers-a-lit-review/279940/ bestdegreeprograms.org DEVELOPED BY N NOWSOURCING ПП AESociation iversity Percent of Total Instructional Staff