November 26, 1999

Tenure's Main Function Now Is to Intimidate

To the Editor:

In reporting the reduction in the number of part-timers at Georgia State University, Robin Wilson quoted Richard P. Chait of Harvard University, who unbagged a well-clawed cat by his remarks on tenure ("How a University Created 95 Faculty Slots and Scaled Back Its Use of Part-Timers," October 22). "[O]n a campus that has tenure," Professor Chait acknowledged, it's hard for the untenured to be happy, because tenure is "the ultimate status

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