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 non-tenure track
positions? Does the absence of tenure mean the absence of shared
governance? Why have some colleges abandoned tenure while others
have adopted it? Answers to these and other questions come from
careful studies of institutions that mirror the American academy:
research universities and liberal arts colleges, including both
highly selective and less prestigious schools.
Lucid and straightforward, "The Questions of Tenure" offers
vivid pictures of academic subcultures. Chait and his colleagues
conclude that context counts so much that no single tenure system
exists. Still, since no academic reward carries the cachet of
tenure, few institutions will initiate significant changes without
either powerful external pressures or persistent demands from new
or disgruntled faculty.
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