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Is it time to eliminate tenure for professors?

  • Written by Samantha Bernstein, PhD Student, University of Southern California
imageIs tenure outdated?Merrimack College, CC BY-NC-ND

The State College of Florida recently scrapped tenure for incoming faculty. New professors at this public university will be hired on the basis of annual contracts that the school can decline to renew at any time.

The decision has been highly controversial. But this is not the first time tenure has...

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