How do you not let someone retire?
quote:More like 99% of the student body is not going to be armed. An estimated 200 or so undergraduates out of a student body of 60,000+ will have a license and will carry daily. In other words, about one or two students per major.
3/4 of the student body is not going to be (legally) armed.
quote:More curious how many faculty and staff carry. Students are almost common knowledge since the majority have to be 21.quote:More like 99% of the student body is not going to be armed. An estimated 200 or so undergraduates out of a student body of 60,000+ will have a license and will carry daily. In other words, about one or two students per major.
3/4 of the student body is not going to be (legally) armed.
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So a guy who spends is whole professional life, living off the state of Texas dole, is overpaid, could not be fired, works 10 hours week and gets a huge retirement and retires.
We need more of these people to retire.
This would be news if he refused his retirement.
He probably set his retirement date and then called all of the new media to announce his "protest".
KBTX was the only rube to fall for this phony story.
He will now double dip and teach somewhere else and continue to live off the taxpayer.
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So a guy who spends his whole professional life, living off the state of Texas dole, is overpaid, could not be fired, works 10 hours week and gets a huge retirement and retires.
1. IMO the word 'dole' means the recipient is unemployed. This man was providing a service to the state in the form of teaching.
2. How much he was compensated for his service is determined by the department and the University. How important is the quality of teaching to you? Would you like High School, the Sequel?
3. I believe he was a Senior Lecturer which is a non-tenured position and on a renewable contract at the discretion of a department. Even tenured professors can be fired. It is a myth that they cannot be fired. However, the grievance procedures are different I believe.
4. I have no idea how many classes the man taught, but many teachers work outside of their classroom.
5. No idea what his retirement package was.
We need more of these people to retire. In this regard, A&M will probably be announcing another round of faculty buyouts because it enables them to trim their salary budgets. This may mean one or two of those 'big name' folks you see brought in for major pay because on paper and in the news it looks good, but it also means more lecturers that mostly do no research. So, more people like this fellow and less of the tenure track researchers. It's a trade-off.
This would be news if he refused his retirement. Huh? How do you refuse your retirement?
He probably set his retirement date and then called all of the new media to announce his "protest".
KBTX was the only rube to fall for this phony story.
He will now double dip and teach somewhere else and continue to live off the taxpayer. Quite a few professions do that, don't they? Retire and then work a little.