Tenure and diversity From: Academe | Date: September 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright American Association of University Professors Sep/Oct 2003. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

It is no exaggeration to say that tenure has always been under attack. Indeed it may very well be that, like its counterpart academic freedom, the meaning of tenure obtains its rhetorical clarity and coherence only when its existence is threatened. That the struggle over tenure has been waged largely on the terrain of language is confirmed by the myriad volumes devoted to the subject that have been published in the last forty years. This is not to say that the assault on tenure, raging hot and cold over the years, is purely a matter of language. The past three decades have witnessed a ...

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