Faulty Towers

Tenure and the Structure of Higher Education

Business & Finance, Business Reference, Education, Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Education & Teaching, Elementary
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Author: Roger E. Meiners ISBN: 9781598132533
Publisher: Independent Institute Publication: March 1, 2004
Imprint: Independent Institute Language: English
Author: Roger E. Meiners
ISBN: 9781598132533
Publisher: Independent Institute
Publication: March 1, 2004
Imprint: Independent Institute
Language: English

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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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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