Deepa Das Acevedo of Emory University, writing in Inside Higher Education: “Tenure…is simply a variety of the just cause contract regularly used outside academia. It is different in degree, not in kind. Academics, as people who are trained to think critically and carefully for a living, ought to realize that this distinction matters, and we ought to remind others that it matters, too.” Read her full commentary here.
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