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If you ask a professor why he needs tenure, the first words out of his mouth will undoubtedly be some variation of this phrase: “to guarantee academic freedom.” Believe me. I’ve tried this dozens, if not hundreds, of times. I have asked professors on both ends of the political spectrum and those whose work falls squarely in the middle.
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Riley, N.S. (2010). Scaling Back Tenure: How Claims of Academic Freedom Limit Accountability in Higher Education. In: Accountability in American Higher Education. Education Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230115309_11
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