Jeff JarvisJul 22, 2023
One-third of faculty driven out by DeSantis
https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/2023/07/18/new-college-florida-ridiculously-high-number-faculty-are-gone/
At New College of Florida, a ‘ridiculously high’ number of faculty are gone

Many frustrated teachers and researchers have resigned or taken leaves to look for other jobs, school officials say.

Tampa Bay Times
Show threadDr. Brad Rosenheim has moved!
@jeffjarvis Important to note that this is by design. They want to replace the tenured faculty with right wing Christo-fascist sympathetic professors. The easiest way is through attrition, avoiding the legal battles of firing tenured professors who don't happen to teach or research exactly what the state wants them to.
Jul 22, 2023 at 11:15amWeb
Show threadPermacultureandpoliticsJul 22, 2023
@Brad_Rosenheim @jeffjarvis I worked for an asshole once who flat out told me my job was to make people who didn’t do things his way uncomfortable until they quit of their own accord. Then he wouldn’t be on the hook for increased unemployment insurance.
Show threadClebaykaJul 26, 2023
@Permacultureandpolitics @Brad_Rosenheim @jeffjarvis South Africa has labour legislation that allows for compensation when this happens. It’s called constructive dismissal.
Show threadPermacultureandpoliticsJul 26, 2023
@clebayka @Brad_Rosenheim @jeffjarvis I could have used that. He did the same to me when I wouldn’t make our employees feel bad about themselves. He did no obvious actions that could be used in employment hearings or discrimination lawsuits. It would have taken a lot of effort to take him to court and win against his high powered attorneys. I just gave up, as most of his targeted employees did.
Show threadaardvarkJul 22, 2023
@Brad_Rosenheim @jeffjarvis maybe we can get DeSantis to wear a pilgrim hat
Show threadDavid FowlerJul 22, 2023
@Brad_Rosenheim @jeffjarvis
Republicans don’t want real education.
They prefer their half-wit supporters are uneducated so they can fill their minds with vile propaganda. Like Russians, American Republicans no longer care about truth or fact or the real world.
All that conservative freedom. What a joke.
Republicans don’t care about freedom. They know education sets you free, so they destroy education. They are the enemy of free people everywhere.
Show threadcaseyjonesedJul 22, 2023
@davidfowler @Brad_Rosenheim @jeffjarvis Educated people cannot be controlled easily. Also they earn higher wages. To the GOP, that’s a bad thing!
Show threadCarlos MoffatJul 22, 2023

@Brad_Rosenheim @jeffjarvis also worth noting that tenure doesn’t protect you if the institution, backed by the state, is determined to fire you.

Tenure is in many ways an institutional norm and only truly protects faculty if administrators are committed to it as a concept.

Show threadDr. Brad Rosenheim has moved!Jul 22, 2023
@carlosmoffat @jeffjarvis Neither our university leaders or our state government are committed to #tenure as a concept. In fact it is hard to call what professors at public universities in #Florida have "tenure." I think one can make a strong argument that with a five-year review, we do not have tenure. Right now our government is on a crusade to recreate the miserable exploitative and extractive of USian history, but when they change their focus to #climate change and protection of the #environment I can hardly imagine my 5 year reviews going smoothly!
Show threadCarlos MoffatJul 22, 2023
@Brad_Rosenheim @jeffjarvis I would hope that the increasingly dire reality of climate change and the need to protect the reputation and ability to recruit in well known institutions like yours will win the day but yes, the job is stressful enough already and I’m sorry you have to be thinking about job security over everything else.
Show threadapophisJul 22, 2023

@Brad_Rosenheim @jeffjarvis i’d go even further and say they actively, knowingly want to destroy institutions of knowledge qua knowledge 🐍 🍎

EDIT: hell i can just cross out that “institutions of” but it might be skipping a step too many for my reply to be comprehensible

Show threadAndreas KJul 23, 2023
@Brad_Rosenheim @jeffjarvis
That won't help them if the students and the recognition from out of state will stay away.
Show threadDr. Brad Rosenheim has moved!Jul 23, 2023

@yacc143 @jeffjarvis You are right. But they think they are right too, and that their innovation in higher ed will have folks clamoring to come to Florida. As for recognition, well, a lot has been written about farcical #university #rankings are. #UF University of Florida had made it to #4 in the nation for public schools but fell in the rankings after the governor emplaced a surgeon general with ill-reviewed tenure on the faculty and the faculty conducted an opaque search for a president (landing on former republican senator from Nebraska, Ben Sasse). They sunk all the way to #5. 🤷

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/top-public