The future of tenure. (Status Report).(includes origin of tenure)

From: Change | Date: May 1, 2003| Author: Olswang, Steven | Copyright information

Tenure may be the most misunderstood legal concept in American higher education, or perhaps it is not misunderstood but rather interpreted differently according to individual inclinations. Many faculty consider tenure as their protection against the administration; their legal claim to employment for life, allowing them the academic freedom to do or not do whatever they will.

Administrators consider tenure as an insurmountable impediment to flexibility; the legal hindran...

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