… or go on watching the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) weaken law faculties [Dan Subotnik] I wrote on this problem in my 1997 book The Excuse Factory, and more recently here, here, and here.
… or go on watching the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) weaken law faculties [Dan Subotnik] I wrote on this problem in my 1997 book The Excuse Factory, and more recently here, here, and here.
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Poor decision making on the part of administrators long departed to have offered tenure as lifetime benefit.
My university has for several decades only offered tenure for a limited period, and in a scaled manner that grants increasing stability as one progresses the academic ladder. Effectively just rolling contracts defining how much notice they have to provide. 2 years assistant, 5 years associate, 10 years full prof.
Frankly, I do not like tenure at all and believe the better avenue would be 5 year renewable contracts that would be given to profs/teachers after, say, 5 years of competent performance, similar to what baseball and basketball players get. In the public sector, given the already massive protections that unionized teachers/profs already get, tenure is ridiculous and should be abolished
I can’t think of any benefit to having tenure at all, anywhere.