tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7265603.post-1157941066617705792006-09-10T19:17:00.000-07:002006-09-10T19:17:00.000-07:00"Have you MET some of the dropkicks who pose as professors here?"<BR/><BR/>What an ignorant comment. With such a large faculty and turnover, there's no question some bad hires are made over the years. Yet I wonder if YOU'VE met most of the faculty here.<BR/><BR/>The 5-year limit kills much serious research, it's true, but the IES faculty is probably still the best team of EFL teachers in Japan. I should know; I've been around.<BR/><BR/>"The Uni wants to ensure it is not tied down to another crop of losers who saunter into class 10 minutes late, slap down a cracked plastic laminate on the overhead projector, drone on for an hour, and then scuttle back"<BR/><BR/>And how would this be any different from most tenured faculty anywhere? And anyway, for good or ill, student evaluations take care of that problem very swiftly at KGU.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com