Louisiana State University drafting bankruptcy plans thanks to Bobby Jindal and friends

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9. ROFL

Indeed.

They really don't understand that 1) faculty, despite the difficult job market, will not take jobs in places where tenure is not available, or is eliminated at virtual whim, and 2) you need faculty to a) be accredited, and, therefore, b) continue to exist as a university.

These Republican legislatures think university faculty are just like any other kind of employee. They're quite wrong. You give up a good deal of salary and expend the opportunity costs (six years on assistantships rather than salary in industry) to earn a PhD and work in a university. In return, you are left to do your research and teaching in peace with relative job security. That's the trade-off. Without tenure, there would be no incentive to be trained in a field, which is costly and time-consuming. Adjunctification is already reaching a critical point. It's unsustainable as a personnel practice.

It wouldn't matter if the LSU football team was the most profitable team in the nation. If you can't recruit faculty, you don't have a university.