Inside Higher Ed: A College Keeps (But Redefines) Tenure
Can a tenured professor be fired because he or she isn’t good at recruiting students, or raising money — or mowing the campus lawn.
Granted, the latter possibility isn’t really in play at Laura and Alvin Siegal College of Judaic Studies, near Cleveland, Ohio. But the small private institution is redefining its relationship with its tiny cadre of tenured instructors in a way that will require them to take on significant administrative roles on top of their classroom duties — and be judged as much on their performance in those roles as on their more traditional tasks.
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