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Tenure - in education, a guarantee of the permanence of a college or university teacher's position, awarded upon successful completion of a probationary period, usually seven years. Tenure is designed to make a teaching career more attractive by providing job security; by protecting the teacher's position, tenure also tends to enforce academic freedom. Those who argue against the institution of


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    Freedom and Tenure in the Academy » Read Now

    by William W. Van Alstyne. 430 pgs.

    Collections: Education, Entire Library
    ...McConnell 303 Academic Tenure and Academic Freedom Ralph...Committee on Academic Freedom and Academic Tenure 1915 393...presented in this work. " D oes academic tenure...
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    Tenure for Socrates: A Study in the Betrayal of the American Professor » Read Now

    by Jon Huer. 218 pgs.

    Collections: Education, Entire Library
    In this provocative criticism of the contemporary American professoriate, Huer argues that tenure has created a kind of academic stupor in which those who have it no longer live up to the ideals of their profession. In Huer's view, the typical tenured career often degenerates into intellectual...
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    The Hidden Professoriate: Credentialism, Professionalism, and the Tenure Crisis » Read Now

    by Arthur S. Wilke. 296 pgs.

    Collections: Education, Entire Library
    ...numbers of faculty are tenured, but because many academic programs may, it is argued...mirthful. Denied access to academic sacraments, such as tenure, they doggedly...
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    Tenure: Permanence and Change, in College Teaching » Read Now

    by Adam Yarmolinsky. 4 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...other policy arenas as well. Academic tenure is close to the far end of...disappointed office seeker, so academic tenure arose from a dismal history...assumptions...
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    Publishing for Tenure and Beyond » Read Now

    by Franklin H. Silverman. 169 pgs.

    Silverman provides graduate students who intend to pursue a career in academia and tenure-track junior faculty with candid information about developing an adequate publication record. The book also provides graduate students, tenured faculty, and others with information they need to maximize the...
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    Academic Advancement in Composition Studies: Scholarship, Publication, Promotion, Tenure » Read Now

    by Richard C. Gehhardt, Barbara Genelle Smith Gebhardt. 207 pgs.

    Collections: Education, Entire Library
    ...Publication, Promotion, Tenure Academic Advancement in Composition...Role in Promotion and Tenure Review". "Academic Advancement in Composition...that perpetrates all this...
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    Poisoning the Ivy: The Seven Deadly Sins and Other Vices of Higher Education in America ("Tenure" begins on p. 48) » Read Now

    by Michael Lewis. 236 pgs.

    Collections: Education, Entire Library
    Anyone who teaches in higher education realizes that "the Academy" has significant and pervasive problems in its self-governance, effectiveness, and in according value for soaring costs. Although there is a widespread sense that something is badly wrong, few are well positioned to challenge the...
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    Teaching for Tenure and Beyond: Strategies for Maximizing Your Student Ratings » Read Now

    by Franklin H. Silverman. 231 pgs.

    Collections: Education, Entire Library
    There are many things faculty can do to enhance students' judgments of the quality of their teaching. This book discusses them, along with the ways that tenure committees judge teaching adequacy. Graduate students, junior faculty, and even tenured faculty will find the practical information they...
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    Assessing Publication for Tenure, in Journal of Social Work Education » Read Now

    by Michael M. O. Seipel. 10 pgs.

    Collections: Education, Entire Library
    ...value for obtaining tenure. Findings and...that their highest academic degree had been...scholarship enhance tenure potential, but it...prominent in the academic...
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    The Future of the City of Intellect: The Changing American University ("Academic Tenure" begins on p. 297) » Read Now

    by Steven Brint. 341 pgs.

    Collections: Education, Entire Library
    Based on new data and new analytical frameworks, this book assesses the forces of change at play in the development of American universities and their prospects for the future. The book begins with a lengthy introduction by Clark Kerr that not only provides an overview of change since the time he...
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    Post-Tenure Review at Graduate Institutions in the United States: Recommendations and Reality, in Journal of Higher Education » Read Now

    by Jeffery P. Aper, Judith E. Fry. 20 pgs.

    Collections: Education, Entire Library
    ...important endeavors, and may erode tenure, academic freedom, and faculty collegiality...principles relating to faculty tenure, academic freedom, and the central...
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    Q: Should Colleges and Universities Abolish Academic Tenure?, in Insight on the News » Read Now

    by Ralph Reiland, Mary Burgan. 4 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...colleges and universities abolish academic tenure by Ralph Reiland...Association for Higher Education. Academic tenure - the guarantee of permanent...shouldnt have to bear...
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    Mothers Making Tenure, in Journal of Social Work Education » Read Now

    by Diane S. Young, Ednita M. Wright. 14 pgs.

    Collections: Education, Entire Library
    ...COMBINING MOTHERHOOD and a tenure track academic appointment is a challenging...considerations should look at academics on tenure tracks with other responsibilities...Over...
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    Higher Education Administration: A Guide to Legal, Ethical, and Practical Issues (Chap. 4 "Promotion and Tenure Issues") » Read Now

    by Norma M. Goonen, Rachel S. Blechman. 248 pgs.

    Collections: Education, Entire Library
    In higher education, decisions are made against a complex and often conflicting backdrop of applicable law, ethical questions, and practical considerations. Goonen and Blechman assist academic administrators by providing an overview of the legal parameters, ethical questions, and practical...
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    Assessing What Professors Do: An Introduction to Academic Performance Appraisal in Higher Education (Chap. 10 "Epilogue: Rewards and Results") » Read Now

    by David A. Dilts, Lawrence J. Haber, Donna Bialik. 204 pgs.

    Collections: Education, Entire Library
    This book is a basic treatment of faculty performance appraisal in higher education. It is written for those scholars faced with the need to understand the issues and solutions to the often thorny problems posed by having to judge the performance of their colleagues in teaching, service, research...
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    All the Essential Half-Truths about Higher Education (Chap. 3 "Tenure Is a Necessary Condition of Academic Freedom") » Read Now

    by George Dennis O'Brien. 272 pgs.

    Collections: Education, Entire Library
    In this refreshing and original exploration, George Dennis O'Brien looks at higher education in America. O'Brien argues that to debate intelligently the future of education we must stop focusing on its ideals and look instead at its institutions. He does this by addressing nine half-truths, such as...

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