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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.
Howard Zinn and actor Viggo Mortensen take part in a 2008 panel discussion about The People Speak at Emerson College in Boston. (Michael Dwyer/AP)
One name I never expected to hear come from Donald Trump’s mouth during the last election was that of Howard Zinn. Had the former president really ever heard of the radical historian who died in 2010 even as he excoriated the late Boston University icon for trying to make “students ashamed of their own history”? Or had one of his speechwriters summoned Zinn’s name from the dead to drive terror into the souls of suburban women?
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