A sweeping higher education bill introduced by Senate Republicans would change how public university professors teach, negotiate and get evaluated.
"This item ought to be off the table because it uses the students as pawns in a negotiating process," Cirino said.
"I think you're going to see a big pushback from labor in Ohio," Kilpatrick said of Cirino's new bill. The next change would require annual evaluations that include assessments on the following areas: teaching, research, service, clinical care, administration and other categories, as determined by the institution.
That doesn't mean professors can't express their opinions, Cirino said."It really relates to the environment in a classroom. They can't create an environment that is in any way threatening or make students think that their grade might be jeopardized if they voice disagreement.""We're certainly seeing a lot of the culture wars being injected into higher education policy over the past few years," she said.
But he acknowledged that tenure helps universities lure talented academics and provides the latitude needed to spend significant blocks of time on research.
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