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Feb. 28, 2005

Ward & Newt & Tenure

Newt Gingrich — a professor turned politician — thinks it’s time to get rid of tenure.

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According to a report on The National Review’s Web site, Gingrich on Friday said that the Ward Churchill controversy shows that “you don’t need tenure in this country anyway.” Gingrich said that there are “75 whacked-out foundations that would hire him for life.”

— scott.jaschik@insidehighered.com

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I have quite a bit to say about Churchill, Gingrich, and tenure on my blog. Gingrich may be slightly off base in foreseeing no impact on free speech if tenure is abolished, though students and contingency faculty have never had this protection. It would be incorrect to attribute all good effects of academic freedom only to those with tenure, and while one might find cases in the 19th century where professors found themnselves at a disadvantage, such cases are by no means rare today. A better question is whether tenure’s protection is so broad that clear misconduct — Churchill taking a swing at a reporter on campus, say — is unnecessarily protected.

John Bruce, at 10:15 pm EST on February 28, 2005

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