In a better world with a functioning public transit system that enabled people for whom biking is not possible or practical to mothball their cars, bike lanes might make sense. In this world, they represent the triumph of ideology over facts.
The tenure question
Updated May 14, 2021, 2 hours ago
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Students on the lawn outside the Charles Deering Library at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., in September 2020. Because of the pandemic, Northwestern and other universities extended deadlines for faculty members to publish work that would help them earn tenure.OLIVIA OBINEME/NYT
Bid to limit years of service wrongly blames faculty for woes in higher education
The May 9 editorial âAcademic tenure is in desperate need of reformâ (May 9, 2021) could not be more correct in identifying the need for more â and more diversity among â tenure-track faculty in higher education. Yet the proposal that tenured scholars have their years of service limited wrongly blames them, when declining government support is far more at issue.