April 25, 2010
On the Tenure Track, a Marriage Made in Hell
An administrator at my institution likes to use the analogy of marriage when he speaks about the tenure process: "I like a long engagement," he says, a concept shared by administrators at many institutions. It's a way for the institution to be sure the faculty member "fits"—that she can "measure up" to the demands placed on her, and that the institution has an easy out if for any reason she fails to prove her worthiness (bad teaching, lack of publications, insufficient service, poor
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