Clinical Professor of Management??? - USM Forum -- Message Board

Date: Mar 31, 2005

RE: Clinical Professor of Management???

Date: Apr 1, 2005

ET,

If you are indeed a member of the profession, then I must say with Horatio to Hamlet, that yours are "wild and whirling words." In what ways, specifically, are "our" views distorted? How do you define "relatively high-paying jobs"? (And do you imagine that professors anywhere go into academe for the money? Yikes.) In what ways, specifically, do "many on this board beat the podium about academic freedom and then choose to ignore other freedoms expressly laid out in the Const. & BOR, etc., because they don't serve their purposes"? What is your evidence for your statement that "some feel that academic freedom means they can say whatever they want in class or in their research"? What is your evidence for thinking that tenured professors feel themselves immune from the legal fallout of certain behaviors? What is your evidence for thinking that all professors imagine themselves to be all-stars? Are you confusing such thought patterns with aspiration? If so, what is your evidence that members of all other professions have someone meekly surrendered their aspirations to excel?

Jameela

Date: Apr 1, 2005

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Originally posted by: Equity Theory
"I think it's time we got over ourselves with respect to our distorted view of how things "should be" in academics. There are many academics who need to realize that they are not top researchers and are lucky to have relatively high-paying teaching jobs at universities. As for academic freedom, I think many on this board beat the podium about academic freedom and then choose to ignore other freedoms expressly laid out in the Const. & BOR, etc., because they don't serve their purposes. Some feel that academic freedom means they can say whatever they want in class or in their research. I am waiting for the day when an offended student goes to court over a professor's off-topic, "offensive" remark. I'll bet that on that day, academic freedom and $1 will buy you a bottled Coke out of the vending machine. We need to get realistic about the fact that we're not all cut out to be "all-stars." Participants in every profession have to do it. So do we."

Jameela, don't waste your time with Equity Theory, or is it Albert or Seeker or one of the other trolls. They never provide clear precise information or evidence. Just random statements and assertations. I doubt Equity Theory is even in our profession, or any profession for that matter.