If you’re going to write a book entitled How to Get Tenure, you are going to get a lot of comments about how tenure is ruining higher education. Even among faculty and certainly administrators, there is this sense that tenure is the cause of many of the problems facing higher education. While tenure is no doubt imperfect and I don’t need to rehash the criticisms here as they are well-known, there are numerous important aspects to tenure. In the excerpt below, I address these benefits and how they influence higher education.
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