How men benefit from family-friendly tenure policies
Many research universities have adopted 'family-friendly' tenure rules to help women balance family and career. However, men, not women, seem to benefit from having the extra time.
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Should writing for the public count toward tenure?
The American Sociological Association is starting a conversation to include “public communication” -- work often largely ignored -- in the assessment of a scholar’s contributions. Why does it matter?
Is it time to eliminate tenure for professors?
With 70 percent adjunct faculty, who work on a semester-to-semester basis, the current system is not helping students. What can replace the traditional tenure system?
2015, the year that was: education
The year 2015 escalated many of the tensions that have existed on university and college campuses for a long time. It will be remembered as the year of student activism.
On global campuses, academic freedom has its limits
As universities set up campuses globally, the blanket protections of academic freedom are becoming increasingly difficult to guarantee.
Explainer: how Europe does academic tenure
The routes for academics to become professors are different in Germany, the Netherlands and the UK.
Wisconsin controversy: with fewer tenured positions, who benefits from academic freedom?
With an increasing percentage of adjunct faculty, tenure and academic freedom are way more complex and nuanced than we realize.
What else will we lose when Wisconsin faculty loses tenure?
The proposal to change Wisconsin tenure rules comes up for a vote by the state’s full Senate and House later this month. What will be the consequences?
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