Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Without tenure, professors become terrified sheep (Aeon article)



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Without tenure, professors become terrified sheep
// Aeon


People outside academia often struggle to comprehend tenure. We live in a society where job security is in decades-long decline. Contingent and precarious employment is increasingly the norm. Why should professors who receive tenure get a special kind of lifetime job security? If you look only ...
By Alice Dreger
Read at Aeon

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