July 18, 2008
Virginia Wesleyan Revises Its Tenure Policy
Nearly a year ago, a committee of 12 professors and trustees from Virginia Wesleyan College began to discuss revisions to the institution's advancement and tenure policy. Now the policy, which was dubbed "confusing and unusual" by Timothy G. O'Rourke, the college's vice president for academic affairs, is on the verge of extinction.
The policy, crafted in the 1970s, includes a cap on the percentage of faculty members institutionwide and in each department who could be tenured at no more
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