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SOURCE: Substack
11/17/2022
Tenured Faculty are the 18% – What Will They Do for the 82?
by Claire Potter
"Go to any faculty meeting, and you will hear what the 18% really believes: that if contract and contingent faculty deserved tenure-stream positions, they would have them."
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SOURCE: Perspectives on History
11/1/2022
On Going Back Off the Tenure Track
by Sarah Handley-Cousins
"I had watched my historian friends pack up their families, leave the towns where they’d earned their PhDs, and move to take jobs, but it became slowly and devastatingly clear my situation was different."
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
8/4/2022
Putting the Tenure Debate in Historical Perspective
by Adam Sitze
Academic tenure has much in common with the historial practice of lifetime appointments for judges. Why are academics reluctant to embrace the comparison?
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
4/25/2022
The Decline of Tenure is the Greatest Threat to Higher Education
by Marc Stein
While states like Texas threaten tenure politically, in California the instititution is under attack by austerity and attrition; either way, higher education itself is threatened by the abandonment of employment security.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
2/23/2022
The Increasingly Authoritarian War on Tenure
by Jennifer Ruth
"Democratic societies build in protections for university faculty so that we are not at the whims of whichever party is currently in power. When Patrick threatens tenure, he threatens those protections," and threatens the partisan control of knowledge in society.
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SOURCE: Texas Tribune
2/18/2022
Texas Lt. Gov. Links Tenure Abolition to Banning Critical Race Theory
The call makes explicit that academic freedom is on shaky ground in Texas.
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
9/23/2021
Academic Tenure: In Desperate Need of Reform or of Defenders?
by Steve Mintz
Tenure's defenders need to link the protection not only to the interests of the select few faculty who enjoy its protections but to the broader trajectory of academic institutions.
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SOURCE: New York Times
9/20/2021
Fights over Tenure Aren't About Tenure
by Molly Worthen
"The fight over tenure is not really about tenure. It’s a proxy for a larger debate about the meaning of academic freedom and the priorities of higher education." If academics want to successfully protect tenure, they must engage the culture war battle, too.
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SOURCE: NAACP Legal Defense Fund
7/6/2021
Nikole Hannah-Jones Issues Statement After Passing Up UNC for Howard University
“I cannot imagine working at and advancing a school named for a man who lobbied against me, who used his wealth to influence the hires and ideology of the journalism school, who ignored my 20 years of journalism experience, all of my credentials, all of my work, because he believed that a project that centered Black Americans equaled the denigration of white Americans."
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SOURCE: Mother Jones
6/30/2021
Nikole Hannah-Jones Finally Has Been Granted Tenure. But the Damage Is Already Done.
It's uncertain that the Board of Trustees' decision to grant tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones will lead her to join the University of North Carolina, and unlikely that the decision will erase the damage done by conservative interference in university governance.
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SOURCE: New York Times
6/30/2021
Nikole Hannah-Jones Granted Tenure by UNC Trustees
The vote was 9-4, after a number of protesters were removed from the room. It is not now known if Hannah-Jones will now accept the appointment at UNC.
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
6/29/2021
Finally: Tenure Vote for Hannah-Jones
by Colleen Flaherty
The Board of Trustees for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will hold a special meeting Wednesday, reportedly to vote on tenure for journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
6/9/2021
It’s Time for an Overhaul of Academic Freedom
by Emily J. Levine
The idea of academic freedom doesn't account for the present precarity of most university teachers, and doesn't rest on a positive concept of what professors should do with students and the public.
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SOURCE: Slate
6/2/2021
The Conservative Disinformation Campaign Against Nikole Hannah-Jones
by Alice Marwick and Daniel Kreiss
Two of Nikole Hannah-Jones's prospective UNC colleagues describe the pressure to prevent her being hired with tenure a part of a long pattern of conservative political activism using disinformation and distortion as weapons to control what is taught at universities.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
5/25/2021
Academic Tenure Is Broken. Nikole Hannah-Jones’s Case Makes That Clear
by William Egginton
Many academics have objected to political interference in the University of North Carolina's decision to ignore the faculty recommendation to tenure Nikole Hannah-Jones as a Knight Foundation Chair of Journalism. This incident should not obscure the ways that the tenure system entrenches inequality when it works properly.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
5/24/2021
We Have Criticized Nikole Hannah-Jones. Her Tenure Denial Is a Travesty
by Keith E. Whittington and Sean Wilentz
Two scholarly critics of Nikole Hannah-Jones's 1619 Project say that the actions of the University of North Carolina Board of Trustees set a dangerous precedent for academic freedom.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
5/23/2021
What is at Stake with Nikole Hannah-Jones Being Denied Tenure
by Siva Vaidhyanathan
"For more than a decade a powerful conservative cabal has been undermining academic research, freedom and excellence at what was until recently the pride of that rising and growing state."
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SOURCE: American Historical Association
4/8/2021
AHA Issues Letter Regarding Proposed Termination of Tenured Faculty Members at Salem State University (April 2021)
The AHA urges Salem State (MA) University to reconsider an announced plan to terminate four tenured faculty positions in its history department in a public letter addressed to President John Keenan and Provost David Silva.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
3/11/2021
Tenure’s Broken Promise
The tenure system was established during historically flush times in higher ed, says historian John R. Thelin. Budgetary, ideological, and political changes affecting higher ed are calling into question whether academic work needs a different system.
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SOURCE: New York Times
3/8/2021
Cornel West Is Leaving Harvard After Tenure Dispute
Dr. West’s dispute over tenure put a new focus on complaints that Black and Latino professors are underrepresented in the ranks of tenured professors, not just at Harvard.
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