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The questions of tenure /

To some, tenure is essential to academic freedom and a magnet to recruit and retain top-flight faculty. To others, it is an impediment to professorial accountability and a constraint on institutional flexibility and finances. But beyond anecdote and opinion, what do we really know about how tenure w...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Chait, Richard
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Why tenure? Why now? / Richard P. Chait
  • What is current policy? / Cathy A. Trower
  • Does faculty governance differ at colleges with tenure and colleges without tenure? / Richard P. Chait
  • Can the tenure process be improved? / R. Eugene Rice, Mary Deane Sorcinelli
  • What happened to the tenure track? / Roger G. Baldwin, Jay L. Chronister
  • How are faculty faring in other countries? / Philip G. Altbach
  • Can colleges competitively recruit faculty without the prospect of tenure? / Cathy A. Trower
  • Can faculty be induced to relinquish tenure? / Charles T. Clotfelter
  • Why is tenure one college's problem and another's solution? / William T. Mallon
  • How might data be used? / Cathy A. Trower, James P. Honan
  • Gleanings / Richard P. Chait.