The Chronicle: U. of Colorado Report Recommends 40 Changes in Tenure, Not a Sweeping Overhaul
A University of Colorado committee in charge of a large-scale review of the tenure process at the system’s four campuses has released a final report that calls for 40 changes in the tenure system.
The report, which recommends such measures as an outside audit of tenure cases every five years and a speedier process for firing incompetent professors, has been well received by faculty members so far. But already some local politicians worry that the report did little more than reaffirm a tenure system that was in need of a major overhaul.
Officials at Colorado assert that the 431-page report, which says the university’s tenure processes are “sound and in general meet the benchmark of major research universities nationwide,” is ambitious in scope and will strengthen the system of tenure, which the report calls “fundamental to academic freedom and the free exchange of ideas.”
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