April 2, 1999

One Study Finds Tenure Still Has Cachet, but Another Suggests the Untenured Are Happy, Too

Colleges will have to make non-tenure-track positions a lot more attractive before professors will forgo tenure, according to the preliminary findings of a study of how young Ph.D.'s view tenure.

James Honan, a researcher in Harvard University's Project on Faculty Appointments, discussed his early findings last week during a session at the annual meeting in Washington of the American Association for Higher Education. Noting the

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