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Title The questions of tenure / edited by Richard P. Chait
Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 334 pages) : illustrations
Contents Why tenure? Why now? / Richard P. Chait -- What is current policy? / Cathy A. Trower -- Does faculty governance differ at colleges with tenure and colleges without tenure? / Richard P. Chait -- Can the tenure process be improved? / R. Eugene Rice, Mary Deane Sorcinelli -- What happened to the tenure track? / Roger G. Baldwin, Jay L. Chronister -- How are faculty faring in other countries? / Philip G. Altbach -- Can colleges competitively recruit faculty without the prospect of tenure? / Cathy A. Trower -- Can faculty be induced to relinquish tenure? / Charles T. Clotfelter -- Why is tenure one college's problem and another's solution? / William T. Mallon -- How might data be used? / Cathy A. Trower, James P. Honan -- Gleanings / Richard P. Chait
Summary 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? In this unique book, Richard Chait and his colleagues offer the results of their research on key empirical questions. Are there circumstances under which faculty might voluntarily relinquish tenure? When might new faculty actually prefer non-tenure track positions? Does the absence of tenure mean the absence of shared governance? Why have some colleges abandoned tenure while others have adopted it? Answers to these and other questions come from careful studies of institutions that mirror the American academy: research universities and liberal arts colleges, including both highly selective and less prestigious schools. The questions of tenure offers vivid pictures of academic subcultures. Chait and his colleagues conclude that context counts so much that no single tenure system exists
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject College teachers -- Tenure -- United States
Universities and colleges -- Faculty -- Employment -- United States
Electronic books.
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EDUCATION -- Higher.
College teachers -- Tenure
Universities and colleges -- Faculty -- Employment
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College teachers -- Tenure -- United States.
Universities and colleges -- Faculty -- Employment -- United States.
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Chait, Richard.
ISBN 9780674029347
0674029348