Dr. Crazy has made an excellent argument for tenure based upon its benefit to institutions and to students.
Meanwhile, the AAUP is calling for the conversion of non tenure lines to tenure lines, and I agree. They say in part:
By far the best stabilization practices are those that include the rigorous professional peer scrutiny of the tenure system. Managerial plans for hiring and assessment rarely approach the level of scrutiny that faculty peers apply to themselves. There is no basis in AAUP policy for regarding those in teaching-intensive positions as second-class citizens or ineligible for tenure.
A new draft report surveys several noteworthy forms of stabilization practiced or planned at a variety of institutions, highlighting those that feature conversion to tenure for faculty already employed at the institution.
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Axé.
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