3. Although the term system was used, reappointment was naturally allowed until now, so many faculty members were able to concentrate on research and teaching materials without paying too much attention to the term system.
However, it seems that the operation of this term system will be reviewed and the number of reappointments will be limited. The professor is up to three times, and the associate professor is up to twice.
Although this is certainly the hottest part of midsummer, we will have to hold an associate professor's meeting.
However, there are also reasonable reasons for reappointment restrictions.
This university uses radio waves from TV and radio to deliver lectures. Radio waves are public and it is dangerous for a university that is guaranteed "academic freedom" to monopolize this radio wave. Even if used as a means of brainwashing thought, Japan would fall into a totalitarian state.
On the other hand, the purpose of providing university education to people who do not have the opportunity to attend school is a mechanism to realize the "right to receive education" guaranteed by the Constitution of Japan, and should be highly recommended.
Therefore, since the faculty members of this university have other full-time jobs and belong to this university for a certain period of time to carry out their work, it is possible to say that a fixed-term system is necessary even if the faculty members to which they belong are not fixed.
――However, this is just only public prima facie reason. It is not possible, except for those who have a full-time job and can work at this university, except for those who are nominally assigned the status of visiting faculty when creating courses.
Moreover, for the associate professors, if they were thrown out of this place, there would be a lot of things that would get lost, including myself.
As long as the established facts support the current situation, it would be impossible to do such things as reappointment restrictions now. The system is also impossible.
If it's a private school, the president's whims is likely to cause this, but this university is not a private school in the first place. If anything, it is public. The reality is that it is a saucer for people who retired from national universities. That's why there is no system for promotion within the university, because it would be a problem if the professor's post disappeared.
Even so, as long as the reappointment is repeated, it is not a dream that one day "progress" to another university. However, I can't say that I would be disrespectful if reappointment restrictions were added.
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When asked the secretary, "What happened?", the board seems to submit a reappointment restrictions agenda to the next faculty meeting. I got the answer.
"They can't do that," I said. That's right. Anyone who has ever studied the law a bit will know such a thing. Employment with a term system is also employment. Since it is employment, the employment contract must have been concluded. If it is a private school, the contents of the employment contract will be confirmed and the status and treatment will be specified by using a paper-like employment contract.
I don't know how to treat a national university, but as a public university, I have never seen an employment contract, although there is a resignation.
Probably the comprehensive processing has been done by the establishment laws of this university. It is impossible that the contents of employment contracts will be treated as a matter for discussion by the faculty council with a light process of changing the school rules. This is what I said earlier that "it is impossible in terms of system."
In a similar case, there is Supreme Court decision in which employment contracts stipulated by internal rules were invalid.
"No, a bill is to be submitted to the extraordinary professor's meeting in August. It may be decided by a large number of professors because there are fewer associate professors at this time. It seems that there are also documents that encourage attendance."
A man who seems to know the situation cut in between the secretary and me. (to be continued)
(assisted by Google translation)
