Faulty Towers: Tenure and the Structure of Higher Education

by Roger E. Meiners

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Setting the record straight about the institution of academic tenure, this book elucidates its history, legal status, and common misunderstandings. Meiners argues that the original aim of tenure -- to ensure academic freedom and integrity -- can still be achieved and that the belief by many professors that tenure is a guarantee of lifelong entitlement, whereby only the commission of a crime can lead to dismissal, is wrong. He contends that as long...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0945999895

ISBN13:9780945999898

Release Date:March 2004

Publisher:Independent Institute

Length:96 Pages

Weight:0.52 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 6.1" x 9.3"

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