At tenure, profs can be fired for poor teaching or poor research. After tenure, they can be fired for gross abuses like not showing up, or sexual harassment. Absent evidence to the contrary, I believe this is sufficient. How much damage is Rancourt really doing? How many faculty members are Rancourts? Is avoiding this worth a change in policy? Not to mention it may well be that he *did* violate existing policy, in which case there's no reason to change anything.
Note that most fields of employment never perform the check that faculty perform at the tenure case. Incompetants can stick around forever, just because it's often easier to ignore them than to fire them. This occurs with staff at unversities also (many secretaries are amazingly wonderful, but some, let's just say they aren't).
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Date: 2009-02-17 10:12 pm (UTC)Note that most fields of employment never perform the check that faculty perform at the tenure case. Incompetants can stick around forever, just because it's often easier to ignore them than to fire them. This occurs with staff at unversities also (many secretaries are amazingly wonderful, but some, let's just say they aren't).