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The Questions of Tenure.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2002Copyright date: ©2004Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (349 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674029347
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Questions of TenureDDC classification:
  • 378.1/21
LOC classification:
  • LB2335
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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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