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Update the tenure system, ACE advises.
Higher education should change its tenure system to make academic careers less rigid, particularly for female professors with young families, according to a report issued recently.
In a news conference, leaders of 10 major research universities endorsed changes recommended in "An Agenda for Excellence: Creating Flexibility in Tenure-Track Faculty Careers," sponsored by the American Council on Education and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
The presidents and chancellors admitted that none of the recommendations were yet available on their campuses, but they have begun discussing them and hope other schools will do the same. This marks the first time a national group of presidents endorsed such changes.
Women are driven away from careers at research universities due to the rigid nature of the tenure-track, the report noted, despite women earning 51% of doctorates conferred to Americans. If the system does not change, universities will lose talented women, especially those with families. Already, female faculty members are less satisfied with their careers than their male counterparts, according to the report.
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