Re:Heath and Fillekes v. Google Inc. Lawsuit
by mike_hearn on Thursday January 05, 2017 @02:23PM
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Aren't you assuming that the tenuring process is very similar to Google's hiring process? What if people at that institution get tenure even if they aren't very good at the work? After all the whole point of tenure is to protect people from getting fired regardless of how bad their peer-judged performance is.
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Re:Heath and Fillekes v. Google Inc. Lawsuit
by eli_gottlieb on Thursday January 05, 2017 @02:28PM
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>What if people at that institution get tenure even if they aren't very good at the work?
In modern academia, there are hundreds of aspirants for each tenure-track job. To both get a job and then get tenure means you've been peer-reviewed as excellent dozens of times over since finishing school.
>After all the whole point of tenure is to protect people from getting fired regardless of how bad their peer-judged performance is.
No, the point of tenure is to protect people from getting fired when they have controversial political opinions like, "Stop gutting state university funding".