{"id":5452,"date":"2018-12-13T19:15:02","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T00:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=5452"},"modified":"2018-12-14T16:22:52","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T21:22:52","slug":"do-you-think-university-tenure-policies-should-have-some-sort-of-clause-that-if-students-dont-like-a-prof-teaching-style-approachability-etc-that-tenure-should-become-null-and-void","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/12\/13\/do-you-think-university-tenure-policies-should-have-some-sort-of-clause-that-if-students-dont-like-a-prof-teaching-style-approachability-etc-that-tenure-should-become-null-and-void\/","title":{"rendered":"do you think university tenure policies should have some sort of clause that if students don&#8217;t like a prof-teaching style, approachability, etc.-that tenure should become null and void?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5443\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5443\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/aw121318-12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5443\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/aw121318-12-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"do you think university tenure policies should have some sort of clause that if students don't like a prof - teaching style, approachability, etc. - that tenure should become null and void?\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/aw121318-12-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/aw121318-12-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/aw121318-12-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/aw121318-12.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5443\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">do you think university tenure policies should have some sort of clause that if students don&#8217;t like a prof &#8211; teaching style, approachability, etc. &#8211; that tenure should become null and void?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Faculty are evaluated on research, teaching, and contributions to the university and the scholarly community. Student feedback and evaluations are part of that. <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-faculty-bylaws\">bit.ly\/bc-faculty-bylaws<\/a>. Tenure was designed to protect faculty from being fired for not being popular with donors or governments, so whether students &#8220;like&#8221; a professor seems potentially like a similar issue. More info on tenure and why it&#8217;s useful: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-tenure\">bit.ly\/bc-tenure<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faculty are evaluated on research, teaching, and contributions to the university and the scholarly community. Student feedback and evaluations are part of that. bit.ly\/bc-faculty-bylaws. Tenure was designed to protect faculty from being fired for not being popular with donors or governments, so whether students &#8220;like&#8221; a professor seems potentially like a similar issue. More info &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/12\/13\/do-you-think-university-tenure-policies-should-have-some-sort-of-clause-that-if-students-dont-like-a-prof-teaching-style-approachability-etc-that-tenure-should-become-null-and-void\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;do you think university tenure policies should have some sort of clause that if students don&#8217;t like a prof-teaching style, approachability, etc.-that tenure should become null and void?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[447],"class_list":["post-5452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-boston-college","tag-tenure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5452"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5487,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5452\/revisions\/5487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}