University faculties, which have gotten a free pass during the turmoil over American public education, just received the first whiff of a trend they will decidedly dislike.Kean University of New Jersey, a commuter school whose graduates frequently become public school teachers, has requested its faculty to complete weekly time sheets. The story from nj.com (the Internet version of the Star-Ledger of Newark) notes administration rationale as well as faculty response.
For some time, the education "reformers" had the wrong focus. They should have focused on the universities, where so much is misguided, wrong, corrupt. I don't think time sheets are the way to bring academia back to reality. What's needed is the end of the faculty tenure system, an end to annual tuition increases that are routinely, insultingly double or triple the inflation rate, and the churn of "papers" that accomplish next to nothing toward intellectual development.
Just don't ask the reformers to sign a time sheet.
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