Warren Smith
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1,257 appearances
4 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 2 May
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And that's when things have gotten really bad.
Who wouldn't want to never be able to get fired?
And I understand the sentiment behind tenure, meaning you can't get rid of professors.
It's meant for them to be able to push the boundaries of their disciplines because that's where innovation is supposed to occur.
But what you see, and I've literally have witnessed this over and over again, is you have antiquated professors who don't know what the new technology is and how these practices are changing, like you were just talking about.
And they're just kind of checked out and they're just going through the motions to get a paycheck.
They don't have a reason to care or be pushing the boundaries in a way.
So it kind of backfires.
It's just not a, and again, it's like forcing through something that would not naturally occur.
It's artificially forcing through something.
It would be like any other business where if you do a good job you get paid more and we want this professor because their reputation they've published or whatever and
And the students are really engaged and their numbers are high and they actually yield results.
They're doing research or whatnot.
But like, why is that not enough?
And then the tenure, it's like there's only so many tenured spots available each year.
And then you add on DEI and equity and it's and now certain people are being prioritized and people think that's a myth.
It's not.
It really does occur.
Yes.
So when I first I was graduate student, I was assigned my first class at Emerson to teach screenwriting with undergrads.
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