Tenure system triggers faculty culture shift
Junior professors point to elimination of open job search, improved mentoring
When Jill North, an assistant professor in the philosophy department, was considering a job offer from Yale four years ago, she could think of only one real downside: the University’s outdated, opaque tenure system.
Under that system, revised last year after an 18-month review, junior faculty members in humanities departments like philosophy had an almost negligible — 11 percent — promotion rate. In fact, overall, assistant and associate professors across the Faculty of Arts and Sciences were tenured at a rate of just 19 percent, because they could only be considered when a space...
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