The Questions of Tenure
Tenure is the abortion issue of the academy, igniting arguments and inflaming near-religious passions. To some, tenure is essential to academic freedom and a magnet to recruit and retain top-flight faculty. To others, it is an impediment to professorial accountability and a constraint on institutional flexibility and finances. But beyond anecdote and opinion, what do we really know about how tenure works? In this unique book, Richard Chait and his colleagues offer the results of their research on key empirical questions. Are there circumstances under which faculty might voluntarily relinquish tenure? When might new faculty actually prefer n…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-674-01604-0
- EAN: 9780674016040
- Produktnummer: 1585579
- Verlag: Harvard University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 352 S.
- Masse: H22.7 cm x B14.4 cm x D2.5 cm 502 g
- Abbildungen: 10 line illustrations, 21 tables
- Gewicht: 502
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
Über den Autor
Richard P. Chait is Professor of Higher Education at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. Charles Clofelter is Professor of Public Policy Studies and Economics at Duke University. He is also Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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