May 12, 2000
A New Campus Without Tenure Considers What It's Missing
Professors at Florida Gulf Coast U. complain that a contract system offers too little security
Professors who joined Florida Gulf Coast University when it opened three years ago knew that tenure wouldn't be part of the deal. They signed on anyway, for the chance to work at an experimental institution. Now many professors on the campus say they have no job security at all, and they want changes in the public university's system of multiyear contracts.
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