Timeline for What universities have laid off tenured math faculty for financial reasons?
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| S Nov 14, 2015 at 3:01 | history | notice added | François G. Dorais | Historical significance | |
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| Oct 30, 2014 at 1:40 | answer | added | Margaret Friedland | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 29, 2014 at 19:33 | answer | added | Reimundo Heluani | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 1, 2013 at 12:48 | answer | added | André Henriques | timeline score: 9 | |
| Apr 30, 2011 at 1:46 | answer | added | Dick Palais | timeline score: 14 | |
| Apr 29, 2011 at 17:13 | answer | added | Michael Renardy | timeline score: 7 | |
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| Apr 29, 2011 at 3:10 | history | reopened |
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| Apr 29, 2011 at 2:37 | history | closed |
user6976 Gil Kalai Daniel Moskovich Gerald Edgar François G. Dorais |
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| Apr 29, 2011 at 2:00 | comment | added | José Figueroa-O'Farrill | algori: I don't know about Bangor, but the official excuse in Hull was the RAE score. However I think that there was more to it than that, it just that it was a while back and although I did hear the story first-hand, I'm hopeless at remembering political details. | |
| Apr 29, 2011 at 0:17 | answer | added | algori | timeline score: 49 | |
| Apr 28, 2011 at 23:58 | comment | added | SNd | Should be closed. | |
| Apr 28, 2011 at 23:51 | answer | added | David Roberts♦ | timeline score: 27 | |
| Apr 28, 2011 at 23:10 | comment | added | Michael Renardy | There are things which happen long before it comes to departments being closed or tenured faculty being laid off. The presumption that positions vacated by retirement will be refilled disappears. The presumption that departments set their own agenda for future hiring disappears. And so on. What is discussed here is only the ultimate step, and, yes, it is still rare. The preliminary stages I mention above, however, are ubiquitous. | |
| Apr 28, 2011 at 22:55 | comment | added | algori | In the UK there are two math departments that got closed in the past 10 years or so: Hull and Bangor. I don't know exactly how or why this has happened. Someone with more knowledge on that may be able to give more details. Nijmegen (another math department in the Netherlands) nearly got closed but got away with renaming itself into something applied. | |
| Apr 28, 2011 at 22:37 | history | edited | André Henriques | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
removed "shameful", as I would like to make the question most objective possible (and less sentimental).
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| Apr 28, 2011 at 22:36 | comment | added | Deane Yang | Putting aside whether this question is appropriate for MO or not, I just don't think there are many, if any, examples. In the US the only case I know of tenured faculty being laid off is Bennington College in 1994. There might have been a math professor in the group, but I don't know. The current attempt by VU Amsterdam is, as far as I know, unprecedented. | |
| Apr 28, 2011 at 22:20 | comment | added | David E Speyer | @Michael have you looked? A quick google of the AAUP's website google.com/search?q=tenure+layoff+site:aaup.org suggests that they are active, but doesn't give an obvious place to get involved. Of course, the AAUP is an american organization -- I don't know what the analogous European group is. | |
| Apr 28, 2011 at 22:16 | comment | added | David E Speyer | Meta thread: tea.mathoverflow.net/discussion/1030/… | |
| Apr 28, 2011 at 22:01 | comment | added | Michael Renardy | I think that "name and shame" is really the only effective strategy our profession has to fight back. And it is woefully underused, IMHO. I agree in principle that this web site is not the appropriate forum, the right forum would be our professional organizations and societies, but are they interested? I have seen little evidence that they are. | |
| Apr 28, 2011 at 21:58 | history | edited | André Henriques |
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| Apr 28, 2011 at 21:57 | comment | added | user6976 | Voted to close. No math content. | |
| Apr 28, 2011 at 21:47 | comment | added | Michael Greenblatt | "name and shame" = retaliation, I really don't think that's appropriate for Mathoverflow. Even if such a list can be viewed as providing useful and important information to people | |
| Apr 28, 2011 at 21:46 | comment | added | Andy Putman | I also think it's an appropriate question. | |
| Apr 28, 2011 at 21:45 | comment | added | David E Speyer | Seems appropriate to me. I don't think Andre's plan will work as well as he hopes, but it's the sort of data that it is important to academics, and is hard to find in one place. Inside Higher Ed lists several schools that have recently done this insidehighered.com/news/2010/03/02/exigency , but they don't have a historic list. | |
| Apr 28, 2011 at 21:43 | comment | added | André Henriques | @Deane Yang. I meant math faculty. I fixed the text of the question. | |
| Apr 28, 2011 at 21:42 | history | edited | André Henriques | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 28, 2011 at 21:39 | comment | added | Deane Yang | Are you restricting to math departments or any department? Either way, I'm not sure this is appropriate for MO but if it's about any academic department, then I think it is way off topic. | |
| Apr 28, 2011 at 21:35 | history | asked | André Henriques | CC BY-SA 3.0 |