August 6, 1999

Feeling Let Down After Getting Tenure

To the Editor:

Bravo to John H. D'Arms and the American Council of Learned Societies for describing a key moment in the careers of scholar-teachers and, with the active aid of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, for acting to address its challenges ("Pressing Issues for a New Generation of Humanists," Opinion, July 2).

Promotion to a tenured rank, after the initial relief and exhilaration, can seem almost

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