Ahhh… employing the tools of Web 2.0 to escalate and make visible to the world the battles we go through in the classroom over the course of a semester. At least, that’s the one part of this story I feel comfortable commenting upon. I will say that the faculty member featured in the films below is one of our intrepid blogfessors, though I fear he may not have many students in future semesters with whom to blog. Beyond that, perhaps the less contextualization done on this one, the better.
From MTVU…
Tenure is a beautiful thing.
You point to a couple interesting questions, Matt. There are several other faculty members from other institutions featured in this way by MTVU. I wonder whether they all have tenure and whether something like this can affect (or has affected) tenure decisions. We have talked about students' online personas affecting their prospects for employment, but how does this work re: faculty?
I can't imagine that any professor who tells his students to f*ck off in a public forum <em>doesn't</em> have tenure.
Should those kinds of statements fall under the rubric of academic freedom? I'm not sure.