Academic Tenure and Mandatory Retirement Under the New Law
- 21 December 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 206 (4425) , 1373-1378
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.206.4425.1373
Abstract
Federal abrogation of the age-based mandatory retirement provisions in existing academic tenure contracts calls for a review of tenure and salary policies. Here two alternative explanations for the institution of tenure are examined. Then five alternative policy responses that might be adopted by university administrations are described and analyzed. The proposal favored by the author consists of a two-track salary plan in which a distinction is drawn between tenure and employment.Keywords
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