Mizzou admits HALF its tenured faculty got permission to shirk their teaching duties

Mizzou admits HALF its tenured faculty got permission to shirk their teaching duties - The College Fix
Not only are University of Missouri students spending their time protesting rather than going to class – their pricey professors at the flagship Columbia campus aren’t showing up either.
Mizzou admitted to the state’s lead budget writer, Republican state senator Kurt Schaefer, that half its tenured and tenure-track faculty subject to its minimum-teaching requirement got waivers in the past two academic years. (Perhaps because they have a slave-labor replacement ready to go at a moment’s notice?)
When including “specialty disciplines such as music and medicine” whose faculty are exempt from the workload policy, that number is still more than a third, the Columbia Daily Tribune reports.
Professors are supposed to teach “the equivalent of 15 students in two, three-credit-hour courses per semester” unless their dean or provost grants them waivers, which are mostly given to make time for “research, administrative duties and supervision of doctoral students...”