July 21, 2006

Off the Clock

By ROBIN WILSON

U. of Michigan may give professors more time to earn tenure, but whom would that really help?

For three years now, Gavin Clarkson has been working in an academic no man's land. He has all the duties of a typical assistant professor at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, but his tenure clock has not yet started ticking.

Michigan has in effect suspended time so that Mr. Clarkson can get a head start on an ambitious research project on intellectual-property management and

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