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Tenure as a necessary but not sufficient requirement for academic freedom

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2007

John Ruscio*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ 08628
April Kelly-Woessner*
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA 17022 http://www.etown.edu/PoliticalScience.aspx

Abstract

Although the job security afforded by tenure is one important factor in deciding whether or how to exercise academic freedom, professors must weigh a number of other important career goals that constrain their choices. This multiplicity of goals, combined with concerns about career mobility, may help to explain the differences Ceci et al. observe between professors at different ranks.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007

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