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Foes of free thought coming after tenure at Iowa universities
Students walk along the T. Anne Cleary Walkway and the Pentacrest in Iowa City on Thursday, March 14, 2019. (KC McGinnis for The Gazette) Dan Chibnall and Thomas R. O’Donnell
We’d probably all like to have a job from which we couldn’t be fired. We could neglect our duties and ignore our bosses without consequence.
Maybe this is how some Iowans view tenure, the academic system that lets professors like those at Iowa’s three state universities pursue research and ideas that run counter to economic interests or express opinions that make politicians uncomfortable.
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