>permanent professors are tenured or tenure track and are very hard to 'cut loose'
Hahahaa. Hahahaaa. Ha.
Tenure-track professors are simply denied tenure in the end of their glorious $50K/year 6-year stay.
Hard to fire a tenured professor? You aren't thinking big, my friend. Shut down the entire department. Who[1] needs[2] physics[3], after all[4]?
That's not to mention the obvious solution - eliminate tenure altogether[5].
Think that's hard to implement? Time is on your side then (if your side is the side that wants to ruin academia for good). Simply let the academics retire (or die out), and never open tenure-track positions[6]. When someone leaves the department, replace them with an adjunct.
For every linked reference, I could also provide personal anecdata. And as far as problems in academia go, I didn't even scratch the tip of the iceberg.
Hahahaa. Hahahaaa. Ha.
Tenure-track professors are simply denied tenure in the end of their glorious $50K/year 6-year stay.
Hard to fire a tenured professor? You aren't thinking big, my friend. Shut down the entire department. Who[1] needs[2] physics[3], after all[4]?
That's not to mention the obvious solution - eliminate tenure altogether[5].
Think that's hard to implement? Time is on your side then (if your side is the side that wants to ruin academia for good). Simply let the academics retire (or die out), and never open tenure-track positions[6]. When someone leaves the department, replace them with an adjunct.
For every linked reference, I could also provide personal anecdata. And as far as problems in academia go, I didn't even scratch the tip of the iceberg.
[1] https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201110/physicsprogr...
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2006/sep/29/highereducat...
[3] https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.2.2018021...
[4] https://www.aaup.org/media-release/crisis-university-norther...
[5] https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/01/13/legislation-t...
[6] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/14/upshot/so-many-research-s...