The Questions of Tenure / ed. by Richard P. Chait.
Altbach, Philip G., contributor.; Baldwin, Roger G., contributor.; Baldwin, Roger, contributor.; Chait, Richard P., contributor.; Chait, Richard P., editor.; Chronister, Jay L., contributor.; Clotfelter, Charles T., contributor.; Honan, James P., contributor.; Mallon, William T., contributor.; Rice, R. Eugene, contributor.; Sorcinelli, Mary Deane, contributor.; Trower, Cathy A., contributor.; honan, James P., contributor.
2005
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Title The Questions of Tenure / ed. by Richard P. Chait.
ISBN 9780674262591
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674262591
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2005]
Copyright ©2004
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (352 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/9780674262591 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification 378.1210973
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? 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. Lucid and straightforward, 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. Still, since no academic reward carries the cachet of tenure, few institutions will initiate significant changes without either powerful external pressures or persistent demands from new or disgruntled faculty.
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Added Author Altbach, Philip G., contributor.
Baldwin, Roger G., contributor.
Baldwin, Roger, contributor.
Chait, Richard P., contributor.
Chait, Richard P., editor.
Chronister, Jay L., contributor.
Clotfelter, Charles T., contributor.
Honan, James P., contributor.
Mallon, William T., contributor.
Rice, R. Eugene, contributor.
Sorcinelli, Mary Deane, contributor.
Trower, Cathy A., contributor.
honan, James P., contributor.
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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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