Faulty Towers Tenure and the Structure of Higher Education By
Ryan C. Amacher , Roger E. Meiners  Highlights | Synopsis |
About the Authors | Product Details     • Academic tenure in
American higher education has faced growing criticism since the
late 1990s. Many believe that tenure lowers the quality of
instruction. Unfortunately, too much emphasis has been placed on
tenure at the expense of other institutional features of higher
education. Improving colleges and universities requires
addressing the totality of incentives facing trustees,
administrators, and faculty. For example, real reform could
include eliminating centralized university systems and state
coordinating boards, allowing colleges in state university
systems to set their own tuition, and ending the public subsidy
to graduate education which produces an unneeded glut of
underemployed people expecting above average incomes.    •
Tenure was not created to redress a lack of academic freedom.
Before modern tenure arrived in the early 20th century,