January 15, 1999

New 'Hurdles' for Getting Tenure

To the Editor:

The decisions that contribute most to faculty excellence are made when assistant professors are hired -- not when they are tenured. Yet, during the probationary period, many untenured faculty members today are expected to exceed the productivity standards met by their predecessors ("Pressures to Publish Fuel the Professionalization of Today's Graduate Students," Opinion, November

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