Professors gone wild
No, we're not talking spring break here.
Former Wall Street Journal editor Naomi Schaefer Riley takes a shot at tenure and the "lazy," "incompetent" and "distracted" professors she says protects them when she discusses her book,The Faculty Lounges: And Other Reasons Why You Won't Get The College Education You Pay For on her old paper's video segment OpinionJournal.
Academia is quite an Easy Street as she tells it.
Here's a recent interview she gave The Hechinger Report about the book and how she views tenure, and here's a piece by Inside Higher Ed.
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