Turning the lights out: tenure in the 21st century.('The Questions of Tenure')(Book Review)

From: Journal of Higher Education | Date: March 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

The Questions of Tenure by Richard P. Chait (ed).

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. 334pp. $35.00.

One of the more vitriolic arguments those of us involved in colleges and universities have had with one another is over the idea of tenure. Throughout much of the 1980s and 1990s proponents and opponents of tenure lobbed verbal hand grenades at each other as they tried to fashion one or another argument. One side argued: "Little of what they [Chait and his colleagues] offer is open-minded or analytically incisive, let alone civilized. Instead, we have been ...

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