
What is Academic Freedom and Tenure, and Why Do They Matter (e.g., for teaching about religion!)?
Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman
The Problem With Tenure in the US
Present Megan and future Bart are currently or at least a time of airing roaming over the UK. I think it's very hard to get your mind around unless you're in the system because it's you don't have permanent employment in any other job. In universities in the US, there is a policy of providing tenure for people who have been decided worthy of it. And tenure means that the faculty member who's given tenure is not allowed to be dismissed from their teaching position unless they are proved to be absolutely incompetent or grotesquely immoral. It's being able to teach what you teach without fear of reprisal from donors, alumni, administrators,. They may disagree with it, but they have agreed to
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