The Questions of Tenure /

The Questions of Tenure / / ed. by Richard P. Chait.

Tenure is the abortion issue of the academy, igniting arguments and inflaming near-religious passions. To some, tenure is essential to academic freedom and a magnet to recruit and retain top-flight faculty. To others, it is an impediment to professorial accountability and a constraint on institution...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
MitwirkendeR:
Altbach, Philip G.,
Baldwin, Roger G.,
Baldwin, Roger,
Chait, Richard P.,
Chronister, Jay L.,
Clotfelter, Charles T.,
Honan, James P.,
Mallon, William T.,
Rice, R. Eugene,
Sorcinelli, Mary Deane,
Trower, Cathy A.,
honan, James P.,
HerausgeberIn:
Chait, Richard P.,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2005]
©2004
Year of Publication:2005
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Tables and Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 Why Tenure? Why Now?
  • 2 What Is Current Policy?
  • 3 Does Faculty Governance Differ at Colleges with Tenure and Colleges without Tenure?
  • 4 Can the Tenure Process Be Improved?
  • 5 What Happened to the Tenure Track?
  • 6 How Are Faculty Faring in Other Countries?
  • 7 Can Colleges Competitively Recruit Faculty without the Prospect of Tenure?
  • 8 Can Faculty Be Induced to Relinquish Tenure?
  • 9 Why Is Tenure One College’s Problem and Another’s Solution?
  • 10 How Might Data Be Used?
  • 11 Gleanings
  • Contributors
  • Index

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