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Feb. 24, 2005
Holding Out for Tenure
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Why do we have tenure?
This article does not even address the reasons why tenure is viewed as the only guaranteed protection of academic freedom for those who teach and do research. It paints instead a picture of the AAUP as reactionaries who refuse to acknowledge the new approaches universities use to avoid granting tenure.
Too bad. A discussion of tenure is always in order, but only if the actual arguments in its favor are brought forward. Otherwise, we are subjected to the sight of someone kicking down a straw man.
It’s an unfair argument (especially since the “protections” supposedly afforded these people are nowhere delineated), one that I cannot fully rectify in this short space.
Examine AAUP documents from the last century and you’ll see the development of the concept and its application to modern higher education. It is not mere traditionalism.
Rodger M. Govea, Cleveland State University, at 4:37 pm EST on February 25, 2005