The Tenure Debate -- Near and Afar

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Minnesota faculty, regents put tenure to the test Washington Post [Nov. 9, 1996]
Cracks in the Ivory Tower: Tenuous Tenure Science/AAAS NextWave [Nov. 1, 1996]
Universities grapple with new realities Minneapolis Star Tribune [Dec. 9, 1996]
Academic job security threatened as anti-tenure wave sweeps U.S. The Scientist [Nov. 11, 1996]
Attacks on tenure lead to new standards American Psychological Association Monitor [May 1996]
Tenure tenacity Washington Post editorial [March 11, 1996]
Expert [Richard Chait] gives views on national trends, dialogue University of Arizona [Jan. 17, 1996]
Post-tenure review Ernest Boyer, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
Tenure: Money woes stress universities, reviving debate on need for tenure Chemical & Engineering News [Oct. 23, 1995] Warning: Information technology will transform the university William A. Wulf, Issues in Science and Technology [Summer 1995]
Plants or candle factories? U.S. higher education and the IT revolution Donald N. Langenberg, Science [June 21, 1996]
Growth in untenured academic science jobs seen as hurting careers The Scientist [Sept. 18, 1995] The invisible majority [non-tenure-track faculty]: Myths, realities, and a call for action Mary Elizabeth Perry, Occidental College [May 1995]

The Tenure Debate: Near and Afar