Examines four proposed solutions being developed on different campuses to revamp tenure and education, arguing that to adequately handle organizational problems in higher education, it is necessary to emphasize the cultural framework in which academe is situated. Discusses tenure as structure, organizational critiques of tenure, restructuring…

Inseparable histories of teaching, teachers, and teacher education point to social and institutional pressures on the development of teacher preparation over the past two centuries. Persistence of basic patterns of influence and policy suggests that reform of teacher education requires both programmatic changes and improvements in the conditions…