Book contents
- The War on Tenure
- The War on Tenure
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- 1Skirmishes
- Part OneGetting to Tenure
- Part TwoTenure’s Troubles
- Part ThreeTenure’s Labor
- Part FourTenured-Terminations
- 18Jobs… for Life?
- 19They Said, They Said
- 20Public/Private
- 21If I Stay It Will Be Double
- 22Riffed
- 23So What?
- 24Tenure 2.0
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
23 - So What?
from Part Four - Tenured-Terminations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 September 2025
Book contents
- The War on Tenure
- The War on Tenure
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- 1Skirmishes
- Part OneGetting to Tenure
- Part TwoTenure’s Troubles
- Part ThreeTenure’s Labor
- Part FourTenured-Terminations
- 18Jobs… for Life?
- 19They Said, They Said
- 20Public/Private
- 21If I Stay It Will Be Double
- 22Riffed
- 23So What?
- 24Tenure 2.0
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Chapter 23 synthesizes the information presented in the book to explain why tenure matters not only for the current and aspiring faculty who are directly impacted by it, but for the students, parents, administrators, politicians, and citizens who may think that tenure is the peculiar concern of professors. The chapter also draws on higher education expenditure statistics to show why arguments sounding in budgetary shortfalls are inadequate justifications for reductions in tenure-stream employment.
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