April 8, 2005

A Different Way to Reform Tenure

To the Editor:

I could not agree more with the call for a drastic change in the tenure system "to make academic careers less rigid" ("Report Calls for a More Flexible Tenure Process," The Chronicle, February 25). But the changes proposed by the American Council on Education and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation risk making matters worse.

"Giving young professors up to 10 years -- instead of 6 -- to earn tenure" is likely to mean that the tenure bar will be raised, not

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