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In Defense of Tenure
It might be under attack, but academic tenure is essential to preserving academic freedom.
The Lost Soul of Higher Education: Corporatization, the Assault on Academic Freedom, and the End of the American University By Ellen Schrecker • The New Press • 2010 • 304 pages • $27.95
I inhabit two worlds. The first is where I work most of the time—the American academy or, more specifically, a state-funded university. What do I see here? A full-time faculty dwindling in numbers and whose salaries are flatlining; rising ranks of “contingent” and contract-based teachers who have little job security; and stressed students who face rising tuitions and ballooning class sizes.
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I inhabit two worlds. The first is where I work most of the time—the American academy or, more specifically, a state-funded university. What do I see here? A full-time faculty dwindling in numbers and whose salaries are flatlining; rising ranks of “contingent” and contract-based teachers who have little job security; and stressed students who face rising tuitions and ballooning class sizes.
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