{"id":1694,"date":"2011-05-27T08:02:23","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T14:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=1694"},"modified":"2014-09-12T11:48:51","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T17:48:51","slug":"what-tenure-gets-you-a-reply-to-naomi-schaefer-riley-brainstorm-the-chronicle-of-higher-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2011\/05\/27\/what-tenure-gets-you-a-reply-to-naomi-schaefer-riley-brainstorm-the-chronicle-of-higher-education\/","title":{"rendered":"What Tenure Gets You: A Reply to Naomi Schaefer Riley &#8211; Brainstorm &#8211; The Chronicle of Higher Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/blogs\/brainstorm\/what-tenure-gets-you-a-reply-to-naomi-schaefer-riley\/35666?sid=at&amp;utm_source=at&amp;utm_medium=en\">What Tenure Gets You: A Reply to Naomi Schaefer Riley &#8211; Brainstorm &#8211; The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Well said.<\/p>\n<p>True,  tenure also protects some faculty who have not contributed in any  significant way for years, but I would much rather carry a few  freeloaders (there are always going to be some of those) than to give up  on the whole idea.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We need this sort of protection especially now when greed and the infernal &#8216;bottom-line&#8217; seems to drive everything.<\/p>\n<p>As Einstein said, \u201cNot everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. \u201d<\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-1694'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(1694);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(1694);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(1694);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>What Tenure Gets You: A Reply to Naomi Schaefer Riley &#8211; Brainstorm &#8211; The Chronicle of Higher Education. Well said. True, tenure also protects some faculty who have not contributed in any significant way for years, but I would much &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2011\/05\/27\/what-tenure-gets-you-a-reply-to-naomi-schaefer-riley-brainstorm-the-chronicle-of-higher-education\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,14,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational-technology","category-general","category-teaching-learning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-rk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1438,"url":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2010\/11\/15\/comments-on-the-shadow-scholar-the-chronicle-of-higher-education\/","url_meta":{"origin":1694,"position":0},"title":"Comments on: The Shadow Scholar &#8211; The Chronicle of Higher Education","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"November 15, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"The Shadow Scholar - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education. The currency of the Academy is supposed to be honesty. That is still true. Unfortunately, it has never been the reality - although I remain convinced that it hasn't always been as bad as it is now.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Academia&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Academia","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/academia\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6701,"url":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2017\/11\/03\/abusers-and-enablers-in-faculty-culture\/","url_meta":{"origin":1694,"position":1},"title":"Worth Sharing: Abusers and Enablers in Faculty Culture","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"November 3, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Academe is full of Petruchios looking for their next Kate. Source: Abusers and Enablers in Faculty Culture This article is absolutely bang on. In academia: Abuse is normalized. Abusers destabilize their targets. Abuse thrives because co-workers enable it. It\u2019s easier to blame the victim than change the system. When I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Academia&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Academia","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/academia\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1630,"url":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2011\/03\/17\/ipads-for-college-classrooms-not-so-fast-some-professors-say-technology-the-chronicle-of-higher-education\/","url_meta":{"origin":1694,"position":2},"title":"iPads for College Classrooms? Not So Fast, Some Professors Say. &#8211; Technology &#8211; The Chronicle of Higher Education","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"March 17, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"There. It's been said. iPads for College Classrooms? 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It may be true for some, but it's certainly not true for all of us, and it may not even be true for most of us. 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Contingent faculty members who are hired just before the start of an academic term can opt to prep their classes while they're not on the payroll or resign themselves\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Educational Technology&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Educational Technology","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/educational-technology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1694"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4462,"href":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions\/4462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}