Disincentivizing Dissent, Ctd

by Chris Bodenner

The debate over tenure was one of the most popular threads this week - find it all here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. Thanks to everyone who wrote it. Some final thoughts:

The graduate student in psychology who weighed in on the issue bemoaned the fact that faculty don't spend enough time teaching their graduate students, both before and after tenure.  The fact that this is true both before and after tenure suggests to me that tenure here isn't the...