MLA on tenure.

InsideHigherEd online has a good article on MLAs look at tenure. I find the comments section especially telling. I could probably get within ten years of each of the comment’s authors, which is part of the whole problem.

I also noted, see my own comment, that while the article points out that only 10% of tenure applicants are denied (which many took as a positive, pro-tenure indicator), the article also points out that a large portion of the academic work force do not even get that far…welcome to ad-junk hell.

Go see the article and then come back and let’s talk about it.