Word: msu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...land-grant philosophy has caused the university problems on what it must offer students. While every part of the state budget is trimmed to save costs, MSU is expected to increase appropriations for its agricultural programs. Cuts in other areas lead some to cry that MSU is reneging on its duty to serve all kinds of people. As a result, many identify MSU as an "overextended" university...
Never in academic history have such cuts been envisioned as MSU now proposes. At the outset of the crisis, more than 200 tenured positions were threatened with elimination. Now, even with the scaled-down proposals, 108 tenured faculty members may fall victim to fiscal austerity in 1982-83, although some observers think that only 50 tenured professors may lose their jobs...
Horne, who serves as chairman of the steering committee of the faculty, plays down the long-range implications, maintaining that tenure cannot always provide job guarantees. "It's difficult, almost impossible, to get tenure at Harvard. At MSU, its been very easy to get tenure, almost automatic. So its in a different context altogether...
...pitted department against department, college against college, students against faculty." Collette Moser. MSU associate professor of agricultural economics...
...There are lots of tenured faculty that just aren't pulling their weight. There's not much student concern for firing tenured faculty." Bruce A. Studer, senior, former chairman of MSU's undergraduate student government...