The Chronicle of Higher Education

Tenure Madness

How a shoo-in at Brooklyn College almost got the boot

By SCOTT SMALLWOOD

Brooklyn, N.Y.

KC Johnson is the perfect professor. The Brooklyn College historian is a great teacher and a dogged and productive researcher.

After he had been at the college for two years, the department chairman gave him a review teeming with praise: "exemplary," "impressive," "little short of electrifying." And,...

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