Many people are nervous about hanging onto their jobs these days. But you know things are dire when tenure-track faculty members are fearful that the reeling economy, not to mention the tanking job ...

As someone who voluntarily relinquished tenure shortly after receiving it, I read with interest William Pannapacker’s essay on being “Tenured, Trapped and Miserable.” I feel compelled to share my ...

The black tax is at it again. This time in academia, where Dr. Boyce Watkins highlights the drama associated with black scholars getting tenure at mainstream universities. He examines the case of ...

Blake Benson, chair of the Kansas Board of Regents, speaks at a board event on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025. Regent Alysia Johnston, chair of the Academic Affairs Standing Committee, is pictured to the ...

Out of the under-five media timeout, Jackson Shelstad was in an unconventional place: the bench. With 2:39 on the clock, Oregon nursed a 63-61... In the world of professorial employment, “tenure” ...

This article is featured in the 2024 Freshman special issue. For academics, tenure marks the end of a long road — for many, four years of undergraduate education, four to eight years of a doctoral ...

This article is the second in a series exploring tenure at Brown and in higher education. When Associate Professor of English Stuart Burrows first came to the University, the clock was ticking. To ...

After 11 years of not offering tenure to its full-time faculty, Alamo Colleges District officials are talking about bringing it back. Last week, a committee of the district’s Executive Faculty Council ...

Nearly 40 protesters at the Texas Capitol rotunda on March 23 joined in chants against a proposed change in the Texas House's version of the state budget that would defund diversity, equity and ...