Mr. Magrath's article about eliminating tenure didn't really surprise me. It has seemed to me for a long time that now that the members of the baby-boom generation have their piece of the academic pie, they see nothing wrong with changing the landscape of academic employment so that those of us in the so-called "20-something" generation will never be able to utilize our expensive, hard-won graduate degrees.
And why stop at just eliminating tenure? Why not just fire all professors, T.A.'s, and intructors, and allow Kelly Services to fill the newly vacant positions with temp workers? Magrath should like that idea -- that is how all of the business leaders he admires so greatly are now doing business in corporate America. And many temp workers these days have Ph.D.'s.
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- --Janet, Unemployed Ph.D. in Sociology, Ohio (posted 2/24, 5:15 p.m., E.S.T.)
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