The recent controversy over the University of North Carolina's hesitation in granting tenure to the journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones beamed the spotlight once again on a practice that has long been waning and straining. Today, tenured and tenure-track faculty members make up less than 30 percent of the nation’s professoriate.
Read about how colleges are experimenting with alternatives to tenure. Some are finding ways to offer job security and a governance role to those outside the system, while others are trying to make tenure expectations clearer and fairer. Order your copy to learn how tenure’s place in the academy is changing.
In this collection of Chronicle articles, anchored by newly reported analysis, you’ll hear from academics who want to strengthen tenure, recreate it, abolish it, or experiment with something new in its place.
