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  • 16 - “This Important Service”

  • from Part Three - Tenure’s Labor
  • Deepa Das Acevedo, Emory University, Atlanta
  • Book:
    The War on Tenure
    Published online:
    30 September 2025
    Print publication:
    30 September 2025, pp 138-145

  • 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.

  • 6 - Origins

  • from Part Two - Tenure’s Troubles
  • Deepa Das Acevedo, Emory University, Atlanta
  • Book:
    The War on Tenure
    Published online:
    30 September 2025
    Print publication:
    30 September 2025, pp 43-49

  • Summary

    Chapter 6 tells the pre-history of tenure beginning with the colonial era and proceeding until the AAUP’s 1940 Statement, which is widely credited with defining what faculty tenure means in the United States. The chapter shows that many key legal elements of tenure have existed since the seventeenth century, and that employment concerns like job security played a much larger role in shaping academic employment than is commonly acknowledged.