Book contents
- The War on Tenure
- The War on Tenure
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- 1 Skirmishes
- Part One Getting to Tenure
- Part Two Tenure’s Troubles
- Part Three Tenure’s Labor
- 12 Renegade
- 13 Predator
- 14 Slacker
- 15 In Causa Sua
- 16 “This Important Service”
- 17 PMCs Unite?
- Part Four Tenured-Terminations
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
16 - “This Important Service”
from Part Three - Tenure’s Labor
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 September 2025
Book contents
- The War on Tenure
- The War on Tenure
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- 1 Skirmishes
- Part One Getting to Tenure
- Part Two Tenure’s Troubles
- Part Three Tenure’s Labor
- 12 Renegade
- 13 Predator
- 14 Slacker
- 15 In Causa Sua
- 16 “This Important Service”
- 17 PMCs Unite?
- Part Four Tenured-Terminations
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Chapter 16 picks up where Chapter 6 left off in the history of tenure by explaining how tenure became a dominant industry practice. It draws on educational history to show that, even if tenure’s now-familiar form was articulated by faculty via the AAUP, tenure’s adoption across American academia was largely spurred by university leaders who saw it as a valuable recruitment and retention tool for an increasingly professionalized workforce.
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- The War on Tenure , pp. 138 - 145Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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