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In reply to the discussion: What Would an Ideal College Look Like? A Lot Like This [View all]MineralMan
(146,189 posts)15. That's the intention of tenure, but it isn't always the result.
I had two types of tenured professors. The first type included many of the very best professors I encountered. They were brilliant, engaging, and excellent teachers. The second type, sadly equal in number to the first, used tenure to reduce their teaching to rote repetitions of the same thing they had taught for years. They used tenure to enable an end to their creativity. Those tenured professors were among the worst I encountered.
Tenure guarantees nothing for the students. It only guarantees that the professor will continue to have a teaching position. The rest depends on the character of the person who has tenure.
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Without tenure, there is no freedom of expression. That part is not a good idea.
leveymg
Oct 2013
#1
Tenure is basically a guarantee of lifetime employment. It's essential to free expression
leveymg
Oct 2013
#10
Which is a deficit. Tenure is not a "lifetime job" and it's not perfect,
Egalitarian Thug
Oct 2013
#31
if it's a teaching college, tenure matters less, but I so smell academic capitalism
zazen
Oct 2013
#6
So how do countries such as the UK manage just fine with no concept of "tenure"?
Nye Bevan
Oct 2013
#8