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CONTROVERSY: Tenure - the Impossible Dream? Be Prepared, Get Mentored, and Don't Rock The Boat
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CONTROVERSY: Tenure -- the Impossible Dream? Be Prepared, Get Mentored, and Don't Rock the Boat
Tenure is a word, a concept that has been woven into the web of academia from the beginning -- or so it seems. In the early 19th century, the idea of tenure crossed the Atlantic from Germany to teaching institutions throughout the United States but did not become powerful until the 20th century.
Tenure has been upheld as the pillar of First Amendment rights, of freedom of speech, in institutions where the seeds of ideas are considered most fertile in building and maintaining a democratic society. ...
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The Questions of Tenure
; The Questions of Tenure Richard P. Chait, ed. Cambridge: Harvard...What? Not another book about faculty tenure?" might be the immediate reaction of...publication of Richard Chait's The Questions of Tenure. In this case, such a pejorative response...
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Tenure in perspective
; ...challenges to the concept and practice of tenure. Thus the current wave of criticism is...surprising nor novel. The argument against tenure this time, despite various nuances of language, fundamentally amounts to this: tenure is bad for business. Current opponents...
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Mentoring Program for Tenure-Track Faculty: One School's Experience
; I don't believe in tenure. Tenure lets a lot of dead wood stay. Tenure is a flawed system-it divides faculty and is outdated. Our university does not use the tenure system-thank goodness! I strongly believe in tenure. Scholarship in its many forms...
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Is Tenure In Your Future?
; ...Offers No New Insights CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Tenure, an institution as hallowed as universities...University on October 9, where defenders of tenure espoused its virtues as the seat and the...detractors criticized the current forms of tenure for being not only costly to increasingly...
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Turning the lights out: tenure in the 21st century.('The Questions of Tenure')(Book Review)
; The Questions of Tenure by Richard P. Chait (ed). Cambridge, MA: Harvard...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...
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The new insecurity.(tenure of professors)(Brief Article)
; ...the faculty lounge), mention the word tenure. Foes will splutter angrily about academics...protect their jobs. For all of the bluster, tenure--a promotion that gives professors a unique...sole ticket to respectability. Without tenure, says Richard Chait, a professor of higher...
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TENURE FOSTERS DEVELOPMENT OF NEW IDEAS
; ...your Dec. 29 editorial "Off track on tenure": You are certainly correct to point out that the elimination of tenure at the University of Massachusetts would...without the job security provided by tenure, many faculty might not take the risks...
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Two Cheers for Tenure
; Numerous sources point to the gradual decline in tenure and tenure-track appointments in American higher education.1 The...Statistics also show a decline in the importance of tenure for full-time faculty hires. In fact, more than half...
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Tenure and diversity
; It is no exaggeration to say that tenure has always been under attack. Indeed it...counterpart academic freedom, the meaning of tenure obtains its rhetorical clarity and coherence...is threatened. That the struggle over tenure has been waged largely on the terrain...
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Tenure and the Canadian professoriate
; ...university life is as misunderstood as tenure.1 Even the usually clear-eyed John Ralston...governmental interests."2 This is mistaken. Tenure long antedates the modern concern with...scholarly and scientific work. Not only is tenure misunderstood, it is under heavy attack...
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