August 10, 2001
A Promising Professor Backs a T.A. Union Drive and Is Rejected for Tenure
Joel Westheimer published and won the support of his department and outside reviewers. Why did NYU turn him down?
Joel Westheimer has run through the chain of events in his head a million times. First, he won a departmental award for research at New York University's Steinhardt School of Education, where he teaches. After that, he published a critically acclaimed book. Later, his tenure bid received unanimous backing from his department. In September 1999, he became the only professor
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