"To reshape a university to meet basic standards of equity and justice, we must put teaching ahead of research."

My key reservation about @zenahitz's proposal here is about the pipeline …. https://www.chronicle.com/article/When-Academic-Solidarity-/249086?key=hsZMErKIgGC276GPIxqHkdtWpPJPmTDez0sVEOxaQSBEq2np2vOTiSg-ZL1RCw7NeVlJQUlXMG1NWV9ZYXpHU005dlBQSm9EX3VycWFVcVBHTHJQZFh1bmRoYw

To wit: What happens when colleges retrench around teaching—done by tenured people who were hired and promoted for their research skill and motivation, sometimes decades earlier—while laying off adjuncts who have built their careers on teaching?

Not only does this cut people like me off from our vocations—and as it happens, I'm being subjected to something very much like what this article describes right now—but it also precludes most new scholars, starting immediately, from ever teaching on their own at all.

And, of course, it does nothing about the demonstrated incompetence of many talented researchers at teaching.

So I think a proposal like this could only be effected by abolishing tenure privileges (and even basic first-in-last-out rights) as the first step.

That, in turn, would free professionalized university administrators to do their absolute worst.

My fear is that once tenure is divorced from teaching—which happened a long time ago—there's no going back. You can't fix the academic system without also breaking it more.

Let me double back and say that I think the central idea in the article is right. I just think the sacrifices required of current tenured faculty members will be far larger than the essay proposes.