September 25, 1998

Professor Raises Eyebrows by Rejecting Chance at Tenure

All young scholars yearn for tenure, right? Not Marilyn Easter, an associate professor of business and human services at a California liberal-arts college.

Senior professors at the college wanted Ms. Easter to make a tenure bid after only four years at the institution, but she's planning to turn them down. She said she's grown "disillusioned" watching senior professors at work. "A lot of my colleagues who are

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