Welcome to the third installment of “The Academic Worker,” where we’ve been kicking things off with a miniseries on tenure, academia’s most controversial practice.
Consider the two questions about tenure that probably matter most to skeptical (or merely confused) nonacademics: Why should I want you, Professor, to have more job security than I have? and Do you believe there are any limits on what tenure allows you to do?
Caveat: These are big questions. I write a small column. The arguments below are to fully-fledged answers what microcinema is to the Star Wars franchise.
Now, take the first question: Why should professors have above-average job security?
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