"It's an
ingenious way to preserve a herd mentality," a friend once remarked to
me over beer suds. "By the time you've done all you have to do to get
tenure -- after five or six years in graduate school and six or seven
years on probation doing what you must, saying what you should, not
saying what you shouldn't -- by the time you finally get through all
that and get tenure, you're gelded."
- Changes are
coming soon in academic-tenure
system (1999)
Chronicle Colloquy on Tenure (1999)
