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Leaders at 27 universities seek flexible tenure.(NEWSWATCH)(Brief Article)
Officials of 27 major universities met in late September to discuss ways to make the tenure track more flexible. The current up-or-out nature of academic careers not only leaves little room for professors to enjoy family life, but also hampers academic women's efforts to advance professionally.
Cathy Trower, a principal investigator at Harvard's Graduate School of Education, described tenure as a "rigid one-size-fits-all system, with hurdles that are getting tougher and tougher to clear." Academe emphasizes competition over collaboration and basic research over applied research. "We have structured an academic workplace for men of a bygone era," she said.
The conference, sponsored by the Sloan Foundation and the American Council of Education, also looked at family life for tenured women. Studies by Mary Ann Mason, dean of the graduate ...
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