In extremely rare move, Harvard revokes tenure and cuts ties with star business professor.
Harvard University has stripped a world-renowned scholar of her tenure status. The university’s top governing board, the Harvard Corporation, decided this month to revoke Francesca Gino’s tenure and end her employment at Harvard Business School.
It’s from GBH. WGBH.
And I looked “into it”. In 2020 a graduate student tried to replicate Gino’s research. She couldn’t get any of her results, and that was just the beginning.
You know, Gino is not the only person, in my opinion. Academia is rotten from inside. People who know academia very well, know how impossible it is to get fired, if you are a tenure track professor. It never happens, regardless of the severity of the damage a professor causes.
But when Gino gets fired, immediately, it’s a sign.
It means the turn for others, including white male, and white female, is flashing.
It also means that the universities are starting to show no merci. This is Harvard we are talkin about. Its business school is the most popular.
Plus, academia, and especially these useless fields such as business schools, are truly worthless. I don’t even know why they are still functioning. No one gets anything out of them. People who already have wealth, get into them, make some connection, and get out. Their wealth is guaranteed for the rest of their lives, and the rest is just show.
The rest, who come from third world countries, get into these schools, spend a ton, graduate, and work for free, many years. Then, go to some random place, earn some indecent salary, and live unhappily ever after. The only brag they have, is “I studied in some famous university for dumb people, and I am dumb, cause my biggest wish was to be included with them”.
Babe, they are Princes and Princesses of somewhere. The fact that they back to the home countries, live with dignity, and happily every after, and you are some loner in some hot / cold unbearable town God did not approve of living in, means you never belonged there.
Get of your high horses.
But then, back to that topic, universities should get shut down. Those professors, they do nothing except for trying to break kids. They earn for the damage they make, and it’s unethical, and unfair. No one should get paid for the destruction they cause to the society. Day after day, year after year, you see them unwillingly attend school work, putting others down, and competing each other for petty awards. They have no interest in teaching, their knowledge has rusted over time, and the only reason they are there, is because they are getting old, and they university pays them decently (and sometimes they are underpaid, but have no choices).
Does our in tension, already in crisis society need this?
Instead of spending money on these useless majors such as business, law, finance, chemistry, physics, math, social sciences, and education, we need to do in job training for them all. If we, truly decide to invest in foundations of any of them, then, universities need to get shut forever. Because the last thing they do is any actual investment in foundation of anything.
Instead, put that money into medicine, nursing, and medical sciences majors, and health sciences. Put it into rescue departments. Invest in agriculture, in forest preservation, and in environmental matters. Why is it so hard to understand?