Top Tenure Quotes

I don't tell you this story today in order to encourage all of you in the class of '04 to find careers in the music business, but rather to suggest what the next decade of your lives is likely to be a...

Should a professor of accounting or chemistry be fired for using up class time to sound off about homelessness or the war in Iraq? Yes! There is no high moral principle that prevents it. What prevents...

Tenure Definition

(n.) The act or right of holding, as property, especially real estate.

(n.) The manner of holding lands and tenements of a superior.

(n.) The consideration, condition, or service which the occupier of land gives to his lord or superior for the use of his land.

(n.) Manner of holding, in general; as, in absolute governments, men hold their rights by a precarious tenure.

Tenure was originally invented to protect radical professors, those who challenged the accepted order. But we don't have such people anymore at the universities, and the reason is tenure. When the tim...