[SML] Clinical Professor

[Pat Kight]

Dave Vick via Stagecraft wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 8:49 AM, Richard John Archer via Stagecraft
> <stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
>
>> what do you think of the idea of Clinical Professor or Professor of the Practice and how it relates to theatre programs?
>
>
> JUST SAY NO.
>
> They want to do to your job security what the Japanese did to the
> Chinese in Nanking in 1937.
>
What Dave said. Teaching faculty of any kind deserve the safeguards 
tenure offers for their ability to teach and speak freely, perhaps even 
more so than their research counterparts. These "special" arrangements 
are always, always designed to advantage the institution over the 
individual.

-- 
Pat Kight (speaking as a "professional faculty" member, which is just a 
fancy way of saying "no rank, no union representation and no job security")
kightp at peak.org