‘Never waste a good pandemic,’ says dean eyeing fewer tenured faculty

Dean at University of Colorado Boulder plans to replace tenured and tenure-track faculty with instructors, but critics say the move tells students that ‘their education doesn’t really matter’

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December 7, 2020

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Colleen Flaherty for Inside Higher Ed

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