Accused TSU President Removed from Teaching
As I noticed here, an indicted college president was allowed back into the classroom. Now, it seems like the school has bowed to public pressure and removed her from teaching and is pursuing the revocation of her tenure.Texas Southern University has relieved former President Priscilla Slade of her teaching duties and started the process to revoke her tenure, campus officials said Thursday.
The university's acting president, Bobby Wilson, notified Slade of the decision this week, saying her presence in the classroom poses "an ongoing threat of disrupting the academic process."
Um...OK. Then why in the hell did she get back in the classroom? Here is the thing. If I had done what she did, I would have been fired, arrested and frog-marched out of my place of business.
At most universities, professors with tenure have the implicit promise of a lifetime job. They cannot be dismissed, transferred or demoted, with the exception of extreme misconduct on their part or a financial emergency at the school, thus protecting scholarly work from outside pressures.
Yes. "Outside pressures". I wonder if a felony conviction and jail time constitute "outside pressures"?
Ethical crisis indeed.
posted by Jim VAT @ 7:41 PM
1 Comments:
No, Jim you're wrong. If were an executive at your company and did what Dr. Slade did, then you would quietly have been fired (the press release would say 'is leaving the company to pursue other interests'). The difference is between normal working slubs, like us, and higher level executives. As usual, the same rules do not apply.
John Schan
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