Tenure Denied. Now What?

How professors cope after the big rejection

By PIPER FOGG

It is an assistant professor's worst nightmare. After years of hard work and sacrifice, his tenure bid is rejected. He is told, in so many words, that slogging away on those book chapters was a waste of time, that those countless hours in the classroom meant nothing.

Being denied tenure, say those who have experienced...

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