Lingua franca, Making The Grade

The Washington Post | December 11, 1990| | Copyright

The response to a trial-balloon issue of Lingua franca, the independent-minded, idiosyncratic and tweaky new "review of academic life," was apparently enthusiastic enough that regular publication can begin.

The first (December) issue deals with the uncomfortable topic of academic deadwood: the scholarly coasters and dodderers who inhabit the impregnable cone of tenure. Jon Wiener looks at efforts to weed them out by reforming (and thus violating) the tenure system at a few universities, including the University of Arizona and his own institution, Cal State Irvine. Having made the problem ...

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