The tenure system was originally introduced in the 1940s following several incidents of first-rate professors being fired by their universities because their research disregarded their respective ...

A large study finds that there’s a trade-off. While tenured researchers may publish less, they often come up with more novel ideas.

The ever-simmering question of whether the tenure system should be reformed recently lit up the blogosphere, ignited by an online essay from the (tenured) professor Steven D. Levitt, co-author of ...

A hotly debated topic in the Kansas Legislature may soon produce a hotly debated topic in faculty lounges: How much work should a university professor be required to do? The Kansas Board of Regents ...

A stable intellectual infrastructure is precisely what the tenure system provides to higher education, where the mission includes the preservation and transmission of knowledge.

It is possible that the tenure system is flawed. Of the many crises universities face, tenure appears a contributing cause to several of them. Campuses have become ideologically monochromatic, and ...

I must take strong exception to the passage in “The Two-Year Track: Tenure and the Two-Year College” in which Rob Jenkins states, “Recently, the chancellor of the Alabama community-college ...

Section 3 (c-1) (2) (A) (iv) allows professors to be fired for "moral turpitude." This is not an uncommon contractual provisions, but I do not believe that it is common in university tenure systems.

This story originally published online at NC Newsline. Faculty tenure at UNC System universities and community colleges would end under a new bill filed last week. House Bill 715 would ...

EAST LANSING ― Nearly eight months after seeking union recognition, tenure-system faculty say Michigan State University officials still have not recognized their bargaining unit.

EAST LANSING, MI - Plans for a new union representing tenure-system faculty at Michigan State University were announced Wednesday, Nov. 1. The Union of Tenure System Faculty is the potential ...

EAST LANSING ― Nearly eight months after seeking union recognition, tenure-system faculty say Michigan State University officials still have not recognized their bargaining unit. Some faculty members ...