Should Texas Tech Employ Alberto Gonzales?

[struggle4progress]

August 31, 2009, 11:59 pm
By Randy Cohen

It’s back to school for former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Texas Tech University is paying him $100,000 to teach a single undergraduate political-science course, Contemporary Issues in the Executive Branch, with an enrollment of 15, and to help recruit minority students ...

... Nationwide, the average pay for an adjunct professor is about $1,800 per course. Gonzales makes more than 55 times that ...

One telling assertion: Hiring Gonzales was cronyism, undertaken at the behest of Tech’s chancellor, Kent Hance, a “good friend” of Gonzales’s. “Hiring faculty is paradigmatically the responsibility of academic departments,” the petition argues. “It is not appropriate for the chancellor to be calling the deans of the various colleges asking them to hire particular individuals” ...

... it does seem that Gonzales’s past conduct puts him afoul of the university’s own Statement of Ethical Principles and that Tech would probably reject other applicants subject to similar criticisms. As an anonymous student posted to The Daily Toreador’s Web site: “Maybe Tech should also hire Madoff to teach Contemporary Issues in Running an Investment Fund” ...

http://ethicist.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/31/should-texas-tech-employ-alberto-gonzales/

[rurallib]

1. he could be a tackling dummie.

[rateyes]

3. Well, he's already halfway there on that one.

:rofl:

[rateyes]

2. To answer the first question:

Maybe to mow the grass. Not to teach.

[rwheeler31]

4. How do you teach I don't recall?

[DJ13]

5. Why Political Science and not Law?

Is it because his legal opinions under Bush were borderline ignorant?

[ThoughtCriminal]

6. Does Texas Tech need Hall Monitors?

if not, I suggest he try Faber College.

[Grey]

7. No.

[Historic NY]

8. if they want to secede sure.

[izquierdista]

9. How about Texas Dept. of Corrections?

Give him a mop, 3 meals a day, and a room.

[Rincewind]

10. Sure they should hire him,

somebody needs to scrub the toilets.

[pundaint]

11. Maybe he didn't forget everything and is just a liar

[yellowcanine]

12. Whoa, 100, 000 to teach ONE course? Good work if you can get it, I guess.

I hope Texas Tech faculty, students, and alumni make a huge stink about this. There is no way that Alberto is not getting special treatment just because of who he is, not what his value is to the university.

[boomerbust]

13. Texas Tech?

Ya, sounds about right.