November 4, 2005

Presidents Favor Scrapping Tenure

By PIPER FOGG

A CHRONICLE SURVEY: WHAT PRESIDENTS THINK

But leaders who have been scholars are more apt to favor job security for faculty members

If the majority of college presidents had their way, tenure would become as obsolete as the slide rule. According to the findings of The Chronicle's survey of four-year-college presidents, 53 percent of them said they agreed that tenure for faculty members should be replaced by a system of long-term contracts. Thirty-nine percent

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