TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chait,Richard P.
AU  - Altbach,Philip G.
AU  - Baldwin,Roger
AU  - Chronister,Jay L.
AU  - Clotfelter,Charles T.
AU  - Honan,James
AU  - Mallon,William T.
AU  - Rice,R.Eugene
AU  - Trower,Cathy A.
TI  - The Questions of Tenure
SN  - 9780674029347
AV  - LB2335 
U1  - 378.1/21 
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - College teachers-Tenure-United States
KW  - Universities and colleges-Faculty-Employment-United States
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction (Richard P. Chait) -- 1. Why Tenure? Why Now? (Richard P. Chait) -- 2. What Is Current Policy? (Cathy A. Trower) -- 3. Does Faculty Governance Differ at Colleges with Tenure and Colleges without Tenure? (Richard P. Chait) -- 4. Can the Tenure Process Be Improved? (R. Eugene Rice and Mary Deane Sorcinelli) -- 5. What Happened to the Tenure Track? (Roger G. Baldwin and Jay L. Chronister) -- 6. How Are Faculty Faring in Other Countries? (Philip G. Altbach) -- 7. Can Colleges Competitively Recruit Faculty without the Prospect of Tenure? (Cathy A. Trower) -- 8. Can Faculty Be Induced to Relinquish Tenure? (Charles T. Clotfelter) -- 9. Why Is Tenure One College's Problem and Another's Solution? (William T. Mallon) -- 10. How Might Data Be Used? (Cathy A. Trower and James P. Honan) -- 11. Gleanings (Richard P. Chait) -- Contributors -- Index
N2  - Chait and his colleagues offer the results of their research on key empirical questions and conclude that no single tenure system exists. Still, since no academic reward carries the cachet of tenure, few institutions will initiate significant changes without either powerful external pressures or persistent demands from new or disgruntled faculty
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