Faculty Evaluation Quotes

I don't believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom.

Tenure is an artificial protection for a job regardless of performance.

Coaches have got to be given rank within the university so that you can't fire a coach unless you go through an academic committee, just as you would with a professor. If coaches are to have any stability and security, they need to be treated like an English professor.

Everyone acknowledges that there is a political part to tenure, but no one likes to admit it.

Even being too good at teaching is risky at research universities; the joke is that a 'teacher of the year' award is the kiss of death for non-tenured professors.

Some full professors could more accurately be described as empty professors.

Universities hire professors the way some men choose wives - they want the ones the others will admire.