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Testing tenure: Let the market decide

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2007

Michael Shermer*
Affiliation:
Skeptics Society/Skeptic Magazine, Altadena, CA 91001 www.skeptic.com

Abstract

Tenure debates and disputes are often irresolvable because of the complex and multivariate nature of contractual relationships between faculty and administration, and the nuanced and varying beliefs about tenure held by the professoriate. The Ceci et al. study leads this commentator to suggest a simple solutionallow individual institutions to define the parameters of tenure according to their unique core values.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007

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