How to teach :: Employment, Education, Staffing

tenure is a topic that has produced much heated discussion in recent years. Some argue that tenure is an alter conce and, if institutions are going to remain competitive, they drive tobe able to have more flexibility to hire and fire capacity as student call for change. Others argue that tenure is vital to the justification ofacademic freedom and that without tenure we will return to thedays when faculty were dismissed for teaching unpopular opinions. several(prenominal) state legislatures have mandated post-tenure review for faculty, i.e. Texas, Florida, Tennessee, and Arkansas. spick-and-span campuses have been created in Florida and California that do non have faculty tenure. In addition, to the arguments about tenure, institutions have not been filling tenure-track positions as faculty retire or resign to takeanother position. Instead we are seeing an increase in the numbers of faculty hired on limited term contracts of five years or less and an increase in the numbers of part-time temporaryfaculty hired. Tenure is a topic that has produced much heated discussion in recent years. Some argue that tenure is an outmoded conce and, if institutions are going to remain competitive, they need tobe able to have more flexibility to hire and fire faculty as studentneeds change. Others argue that tenure is vital to the protection ofacademic freedom and that without tenure we will return to thedays when faculty were dismissed for teaching unpopular opinions. Several state legislatures have mandated post-tenure review for faculty, i.e. Texas, Florida, Tennessee, and Arkansas.New campuses have been created in Florida and California that do not have faculty tenure.