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
@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.

@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.

@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!
@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.