Faulty Towers: Tenure and the Structure of Higher Education

Faulty Towers: Tenure and the Structure of Higher Education
ISBN-10
1598132539
ISBN-13
9781598132533
Category
Education
Pages
152
Language
English
Published
2015-09-21
Publisher
Independent Institute
Author
Roger E. Meiners

Description

Setting the record straight about the institution of academic tenure, this book elucidates its history, legal status, and common misunderstandings. Meiners argues that the original aim of tenure—to ensure academic freedom and integrity—can still be achieved and that the belief by many professors that tenure is a guarantee of lifelong entitlement, whereby only the commission of a crime can lead to dismissal, is wrong. He contends that as long as college administrators follow the rules of their own institution, there is little to prevent universities from dismissing tenured faculty who have become incompetent.

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