Tenure is a concept that U.S. higher education embraced more than a century ago. It’s meant to give faculty members academic freedom. That means if they are teaching or doing research in controversial ...

Granting promotions and tenure to faculty members is among the most consequential decisions a university makes. Growing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Of all the things a university professor can achieve in their career, few are as desirable as academic tenure. Academic tenure is ...

In a guest column today, Matthew Boedy, an assistant professor of rhetoric and composition at the University of North Georgia, discusses why tenure, often criticized as protecting incompetence and ...

In the three years between leaving NASA as a research meteorologist and landing at the University of Georgia’s atmospheric sciences program, James Marshall Shepherd ascended the academic ladder there, ...

Eighty years after the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) stated the basic principles and policies of faculty tenure, the concept remains one of higher education’s most charged ...

A bill in the Iowa Legislature, House File 49, banning tenure at Iowa’s universities passed a House committee this session, clearing a key legislative March deadline colloquially called "the funnel." ...

W hen an academic receives tenure, it’s often a public matter. There might be an announcement on the university’s website or in a faculty newsletter, a ceremonial updating of the CV, a flurry of ...

For many of us, it was never alive in the first place, but the values tenure is meant to promote can and must endure. Imagine for a moment that tenure is already a thing of the past, never to return.

Well, I created a little bigger stir than I intended with last week’s post on “ending” tenure. Mea culpa on the title. My original thought was “Repeal and Replace Tenure, Before It’s Too Late,” but ...

Job tenure is decreasing, according to this analysis. Workers leaving their jobs should keep these financial considerations in mind. Thinking about changing jobs? You’re in good company. According to ...