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Across the Great Divide: Tenure benefits those who have it and also those who don't.
An article from AAUP
... The two other major institutional consequences of tenure’s absence
diminished or nonexistent academic freedom and diminished or nonexistent faculty
governanceexacerbate the problem. But of course these two matters are
codependent: curtailment of one enhances curtailment of the other. The AAUP has
long known that job security underwrites academic freedom both individually and
institutionally. Without a clear majority of faculty members possessing job
security, a climate of fear may prevail. Faculty members at an Ohio institution
without tenure told me their president warned them in 2007 that speaking to the
press was grounds for immediate dismissal; a national higher education reporter
confirmed those reports. And in 2004, the AAUP censured the administration of
Philander Smith College for dismissing a professor who violated a similar
injunction against contact with the media (censure was removed in 2008 after a
new president rescinded the policy). Without strong shared governance
provisions, the faculty loses control over the primary areas of its responsibility: the appointment of faculty and the curriculum.
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