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Podcast: New Books in Education
Episode: The Future of Tenure: How Chatham University Brought Tenure Back
Description: At a time when a growing number of universities are moving away from tenure and hiring a higher percentage of faculty on non tenure-track appointments, Chatham University in Pittsburgh, PA recently made the decision to reinstate tenure more than two decades after phasing it out. I discuss the factors that originally led Chatham to replace tenure with a capstone system and what convinced the Board to restore tenure with VPAA Dr. Jenna Templeton and Dr. Joe MacNeil, who chaired the faculty committee that conducted the review of the system for reviewing and promoting faculty. One of the distinctive elements...