Tenure as a Tarnished Brass Ring

by E Wayne Ross on March 31, 2008

Inside Higher Ed: Tenure as a Tarnished Brass Ring

Claire B. Potter has a level of academic success many young Ph.D.’s these days can only dream about. A professor of history and chair of American studies at Wesleyan University, she has tenure at an elite college. Tenure provides her not only with job security, but with part of her identity as the blogger Tenured Radical, where she shares views on a range of topics, writing with the freedom that tenure is supposed to protect.