Category Archives: Tenure & Promotion

The Monterey County Herald: Hartnell faculty win back jobs

Arbitrators reverse decisions

Two Hartnell College faculty members won their jobs back after arbitrators ruled they were wrongly denied tenure earlier this year.

English instructor Hetty Yelland and counselor Tony Anderson were the subjects of binding arbitration rulings handed down this month, said college spokeswoman Terri Pyer.

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The Chronicle News Blog: Tenure at Risk in Kentucky’s Community Colleges

The Board of Regents of the Kentucky Community and Technical College system will vote in March on a proposal to eliminate tenure for all new faculty hires beginning in 2009.

The board, which met today to discuss the proposal, is also considering a plan to wipe out health-care benefits in retirement for people hired after June 30, 2009.

The regents spent about 45 minutes at today’s meeting discussing details of the two proposals, after receiving a report from staff members of the system about how such a plan might be carried out.

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The Chronicle: Nearly Half of Undergraduate Courses Are Taught by Non-Tenure-Track Instructors

A new report offers some hard data on how often undergraduates at the nation’s public colleges and universities take courses taught by contingent faculty members, those who are neither tenured nor on the tenure track.

Such faculty members, most of whom work part time, teach…

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Inside Higher Ed: Tenure on the Chopping Block

Amid state budget concerns, the Kentucky Community and Technical College System may eliminate tenure for all new faculty members and instead offer short-term renewable contracts. System leaders say the plan will give them a flexibility they need, but many professors fear a potential loss of academic freedom and job security.

The system’s Board of Regents will discuss a proposed revision of its employment policy during its next meeting this Friday. The proposed policy revision would grandfather in those individuals who either have already been granted tenure or are on a tenure track prior to July 1, 2009. Currently, the system has 168 faculty members on the tenure track, and they would either have tenure granted or denied by 2014.

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Inside Higher Ed: Arrivederci, Tenure

Marcello Simonetta, an Italian professor for seven years at Wesleyan University, appeared to be on his way to receiving tenure last spring. But a funny thing happened on the way to the Board of Trustees. Despite having been vetted and approved by three faculty bodies, he was not recommended for tenure by Michael S. Roth, the university’s new president. Now, as he considers his next professional move, Simonetta believes rumors, spread among faculty, that he plagiarized his most recent book were the cause of his not being awarded tenure.

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The Chronicle: Ithaca College Professor Says Political Views Influenced Her Tenure Denial

A sociology professor at Ithaca College who has been denied tenure there twice says colleagues and administrators let their political views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict get in the way of their judgments on her tenure bid.

The assistant professor, Margo Ramlal-Nankoe, has hired the same law firm that represented Norman G. Finkelstein, who was denied tenure at DePaul University last year after a highly public battle that focused on his critical writings about Israel. DePaul reached a settlement with Mr. Finkelstein last September (The Chronicle, September 6, 2007).

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Inside Higher Ed: ‘The Black Academic’s Guide to Winning Tenure — Without Losing Your Soul’

In The Black Academic’s Guide to Winning Tenure — Without Losing Your Soul (Lynne Rienner), Kerry Ann Rockquemore and Tracey Laszloffy offer both empathy and “to do” lists for African American scholars seeking tenure — as well as some advice on what not to do. The book speaks particularly to black scholars who may be the only non-white professor in a department, or who are in a very small minority. The authors are Kerry Ann Rockquemore and Tracey Laszloffy, who are the co-founders of BlackAcademic.com, a Web site that provides advice and forums. Rockquemore is an associate professor of sociology and African American studies and founder of the Under-Represented Faculty Mentoring Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Laszloffy is a coach and therapist for black and Latino faculty at predominantly white institutions. Rockquemore recently answered e-mail questions about the book.

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Philadelphia Inquirer: Bible professor suspended over teachings

Inquirer Staff Writer
Plagued by questions about the divine truth of the Bible, today’s young Christians are doubting their faith as never before, says Peter Enns, professor of Old Testament at Westminster Theological Seminary in Glenside.

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