Re:University of California teachers’ union aims to block on...
by jeffreymcmanus on Wednesday October 12, 2011 @06:57PM
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The headline is deceptive here since the "teacher's union" doesn't actually represent professors, and professors don't actually prioritize teaching in the first place. This concerns lecturers, who have always had a very tenuous position in the UC hierarchy (since lecturers don't get tenure). It's quite unlikely that lecturers would go on strike over online learning; if they did, it's likely that UC would simply replace them with graduate TAs.
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Re:University of California teachers’ union aims to block on...
by djcapelis on Wednesday October 12, 2011 @08:31PM
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For whatever its worth, there is a position class called "Lecturer with Security of Employment" that allows essentially a tenure system for select lecturers. Typically, a lecturer must have at least a PhD to be considered for something like this, it's for people who want to focus on teaching but don't want any research duties.
Re:University of California teachers’ union aims to block on...
by jeffreymcmanus on Wednesday October 12, 2011 @10:21PM
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That position is used very rarely by UC. In the dozen or so departments I worked in during my time working in UCSB's administration, I can remember one or two lecturers with SOE -- it would generally be used to attract or retain a superstar lecturer, but it's not the default. (Tenured positions in general are much harder to come by than they once were, particularly in the humanities.)
Re:University of California teachers’ union aims to block on...
by hyperbovine on Thursday October 13, 2011 @12:50AM
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It's a shame too. Two of the best professors I ever had were SOE:
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~ddgarcia/ http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/
The system makes total sense. Everybody wins.