Life on the "Effectively Terminal" Tenure Track.

Finkelstein, Martin

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ERIC Number: EJ331700

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Publication Date: 1986

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Life on the "Effectively Terminal" Tenure Track.

Finkelstein, Martin

Academe, v72 n1 p32-36 Jan-Feb 1986

The implications for the careers of junior faculty members of the trend toward creating tenure-track appointments that are tenure-track in name only, without any real security, are examined. (MSE)

Descriptors: Career Ladders, College Faculty, Educational Change, Employment Practices, Faculty College Relationship, Higher Education, Nontenured Faculty, Teaching (Occupation), Tenure, Trend Analysis

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative

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Audience: Teachers; Administrators; Practitioners

Language: English

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