October 27, 2000

Committee Urges Boston University to Demand More of Professors

By ELIZABETH GREENE

A committee that is reviewing the tenure system at Boston University in the face of "rising public concern about the cost of higher education" has recommended changes that would demand more of tenured and tenure-track faculty members and put non-tenure-track instructors on a more equal footing with their colleagues.

The Tenure Discussion Group, a 10-member panel that was convened in 1998 by the university's provost, Dennis Berkey, suggests in a new report that

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