October 24, 2008

Want Tenure? Sign on the Dotted Line ...

By STEPHEN JOEL TRACHTENBERG

Something is wrong with tenure, and we need to make it right. Abolishing it altogether is not politically or culturally feasible, or even likely. Any such attempt would set the many academic constituencies against all the rest simultaneously and, like the famous circular firing squad, leave everyone at least grievously injured and possibly some higher-education institutions dead.

But that doesn't mean that we shouldn't at least consider changing some of the ways that tenure

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