June 23, 2000

Multiyear Contracts, but No Tenure

To the Editor:

As one of the central figures quoted in Robin Wilson's story on Florida Gulf Coast University's controversial multiyear-contract system ("A New Campus Without Tenure Considers What It's Missing," May 12), I am writing to express my disappointment in a story that both misrepresented my observations and squandered the opportunity to offer an incisive analysis. Journalism about multiyear-contract systems tends to be written according to a set of