The questions of tenure / edited by Richard P. Chait.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chait, Richard.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College teachers--Tenure--United States.

College teachers.

College teachers--Tenure.

Universities and colleges--Faculty--Employment.

Universities and colleges--Faculty.

United States.

Universities and colleges--Faculty--Employment--United States.

Universities and colleges.

Physical Description:

xii, 334 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002.

Summary:

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 institutional flexibility and finances. But beyond anecdote and opinion, what do we really know about how tenure works?.

Contents:

1 Why Tenure? Why Now? / Richard P. Chait 6

2 What Is Current Policy? / Cathy A. Trower 32

3 Does Faculty Governance Differ at Colleges with Tenure and Colleges without Tenure? / Richard P. Chait 69

4 Can the Tenure Process Be Improved? / R. Eugene Rice, Mary Deane Sorcinelli 101

5 What Happened to the Tenure Track? / Roger G. Baldwin, Jay L. Chronister 125

6 How Are Faculty Faring in Other Countries? / Philip G. Altbach 160

7 Can Colleges Competitively Recruit Faculty without the Prospect of Tenure? / Cathy A. Trower 182

8 Can Faculty Be Induced to Relinquish Tenure? / Charles T. Clotfelter 221

9 Why Is Tenure One College's Problem and Another's Solution? / William T. Mallon 246

10 How Might Data Be Used? / Cathy A. Trower, James P. Honan 273

11 Gleanings / Richard P. Chait 309.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0674007719

OCLC:

47947571