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A professor or curator with academic tenure has an appointment that lasts until retirement age, except for dismissal with just cause. A common justification for tenure is the principle of academic freedom, which holds that it is beneficial for state, society and academy in the long run if scholars are free to examine, hold, and advance controversial views. Elementary, middle, and secondary school teachers can also be granted tenure in some places. Tenure is generally earned after a number of years of work experience, after certain criteria are met and after a successful tenure review (source of information: Wikipedia).
Tenure had been criticized for its condoning of unsupervised administration and has been likened therefore to dictatorships. However, advocates suggest (as the Wikipedia entry states) that tenure grants educators/administrators the necessary leg-room to investigate complex/controversial topics at their own intellectual leisure without the constant monitoring of review boards.
Education is vital for a society or state, and policies regarding tenure at a college/university (or museum) reflect a nation's investments in governance over education policy. Various politics-relevant issues in education such as school uniform enforcement, curriculum content (e.g., religion), and affirmative-action suggest that governance is key for efficient education administration.
For our consumerism-centric modern world (e.g., European Union, Burger King, Wall Street, NATO, etc., etc.), determining who gets academic license to explore intellectual subjects with greater degrees of freedom (or even power) can be as symbolic as debates about whether or not FDR should have been afforded four consecutive presidential terms. This is because in a consumerism society, people play close attention to who gets 'brain coupons.'
That's why lifestyle-conscious popular-culture presentations in art (e.g., cinema) such as the Hollywood (USA) films Erin Brockovich and Dangerous Minds symbolize a 'pedestrian focus' on new-age 'social contract rationalism.'
Unfortunately, much of this dialogue is in many cases falsely interpreted as 'new age populism-liberalism' and not governance intellectualism.
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TRUMP: People from all ethnic/cultural backgrounds in America are fascinated by a pro-federalism education.
CARTER: Sometimes, people assume that pro-federalism 'education' includes federalism critique.
TRUMP: Is it 'federalism' to promote a healthy respect for capitalism?
CARTER: Governance is a key issue when discussing 'lifestyle-culture' (e.g., Wall Street) in this modern age.
TRUMP: You're saying that democracy by definition breeds healthy suspicion?
CARTER: Ya know, in colleges/universities, the awarding of tenure represents a management of 'suspicion.'
TRUMP: Some say a tenured professor is like Julius Caesar.
CARTER: That's what the modern film Oleanna is all about...
TRUMP: Leaders as varied as Che Guevara and FDR have claimed education and governance are linked.
CARTER: Social policy references education when lifestyle and culture blend (e.g., Great Depression).
TRUMP: Should FDR have been granted 4 consecutive terms in office (rationalized by crisis)?
CARTER: That question is usually answered with a discussion about the efficacy of New Deal policies.
TRUMP: Tenure in African-American Studies departments in American colleges/universities is controversial.
CARTER: That's because multiculturalism requires a lot of political coordination.
TRUMP: We could evaluate tenure value in terms of the quality of African-American Studies departments.
CARTER: This could become as incendiary an issue as separation of Church and State in schools.
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African-American Studies (Dartmouth College)
Tenure had been criticized for its condoning of unsupervised administration and has been likened therefore to dictatorships. However, advocates suggest (as the Wikipedia entry states) that tenure grants educators/administrators the necessary leg-room to investigate complex/controversial topics at their own intellectual leisure without the constant monitoring of review boards.
Education is vital for a society or state, and policies regarding tenure at a college/university (or museum) reflect a nation's investments in governance over education policy. Various politics-relevant issues in education such as school uniform enforcement, curriculum content (e.g., religion), and affirmative-action suggest that governance is key for efficient education administration.
For our consumerism-centric modern world (e.g., European Union, Burger King, Wall Street, NATO, etc., etc.), determining who gets academic license to explore intellectual subjects with greater degrees of freedom (or even power) can be as symbolic as debates about whether or not FDR should have been afforded four consecutive presidential terms. This is because in a consumerism society, people play close attention to who gets 'brain coupons.'
That's why lifestyle-conscious popular-culture presentations in art (e.g., cinema) such as the Hollywood (USA) films Erin Brockovich and Dangerous Minds symbolize a 'pedestrian focus' on new-age 'social contract rationalism.'
Unfortunately, much of this dialogue is in many cases falsely interpreted as 'new age populism-liberalism' and not governance intellectualism.
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TRUMP: People from all ethnic/cultural backgrounds in America are fascinated by a pro-federalism education.
CARTER: Sometimes, people assume that pro-federalism 'education' includes federalism critique.
TRUMP: Is it 'federalism' to promote a healthy respect for capitalism?
CARTER: Governance is a key issue when discussing 'lifestyle-culture' (e.g., Wall Street) in this modern age.
TRUMP: You're saying that democracy by definition breeds healthy suspicion?
CARTER: Ya know, in colleges/universities, the awarding of tenure represents a management of 'suspicion.'
TRUMP: Some say a tenured professor is like Julius Caesar.
CARTER: That's what the modern film Oleanna is all about...
TRUMP: Leaders as varied as Che Guevara and FDR have claimed education and governance are linked.
CARTER: Social policy references education when lifestyle and culture blend (e.g., Great Depression).
TRUMP: Should FDR have been granted 4 consecutive terms in office (rationalized by crisis)?
CARTER: That question is usually answered with a discussion about the efficacy of New Deal policies.
TRUMP: Tenure in African-American Studies departments in American colleges/universities is controversial.
CARTER: That's because multiculturalism requires a lot of political coordination.
TRUMP: We could evaluate tenure value in terms of the quality of African-American Studies departments.
CARTER: This could become as incendiary an issue as separation of Church and State in schools.
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African-American Studies (Dartmouth College)
