College Layoffs and the Standard BS from “academics”
Having tenure seems to mean reality need not intrude on your world. According to a sociology “professor” financial reality is “Social Darwinism” Ai yi yi, stop with the cant when you, the president of the local chapter of your union, can’t even figure out your own union is responsible. Sheesh. A PhD in stupid.
“They are really pitting old against new in a kind of social Darwinism,” said Christy Hammer, a sociology professor and president of the local chapter of the Associated Faculties of the University of Maine, an affiliate of the National Education Association.
Hammer said the method prompted infighting to break out within departments.
The “last hired, first fired” method is nothing new, but the faculty said that sort of thinking did not belong in nonprofit higher education.
“To my way of thinking, the administration is assaulting the whole institution of tenure,” said Rachel Bouvier, an economics professor who was laid off Friday.
Caswell, the university spokesman, said the order of layoffs was actually a product of the system’s faculty contracts. Those contracts are negotiated by the union.
“Under terms of the faculty contract, those with less seniority are terminated before those with more seniority,” he said in an email.
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