August 10, 2009

Alabama's Tenure System: Hang On for 3 Years

To the Editor:

I must take strong exception to the passage in “The Two-Year Track: Tenure and the Two-Year College” in which Rob Jenkins states, “Recently, the chancellor of the Alabama community-college system resigned amid charges from faculty groups that he was seeking to end the practice of awarding tenure there” (The Chronicle, June 11).

Chancellor Bradley Byrne did not resign because of his position on tenure. He resigned to run for

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