On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Rick Adams wrote:
> Actually, what we would see is:
>
> 1. 10 hours LESS time spent on Academic activities (teaching, research,
> etc.) each semester,
>
> 2. Less individuals making the decision to enter teaching instead of the
> private sector,
>
> 3. Non-tenured faculty doing the community service work while tenured
> faculty had no such obligation,
>
> 4. A serious ethical question arising as to the right of the institution to
> dictate the PRIVATE behavior of the faculty in terms of requiring
> non-compensated services (and a union challenge everywhere such a rule was
> enacted),
>
> 5. More teachers voting Republican in an effort to get rid of intrusive
> regulations such as that one.
>
> Nope, Michael. I really don't think that one is going to fly,
>
> Rick>
> --
On the other hand it might fly. Models like this are being used
collaboratively in other cultures-where the intellectual is part of the
community.
In some Latin American countries,there is the public defense of
dissertations and the intellectual helps out in the barrio.
Some intellectuals must make things happen.
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
