FYI, a proposal by the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Science to consider scrapping tenure in the university system. I didn't find this to be a very comeplling argument (for example, if women are hamstrung by the tenure system in terms of family decisions, why would this be any different under a contract-based system? And would a "national committee" effectively protect academic freedom?). However, it's likely to ignite lots of discussion inside and outside the halls of academe!
wil http://www.sciencemag.org/content/350/6266/1295.full?utm_campaign=email-sci-toc&et_rid=35385891&et_cid=146102 Dr. Wil Burns Co-Executive Director, Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment A Scholarly Initiative of the School of International Service, American University 2650 Haste Street, Towle Hall #G07 Berkeley, CA 94720 650.281.9126 (Phone) http://www.dcgeoconsortium.org<http://www.dcgeoconsortium.org/> [cid:[email protected]] Blog: Teaching Climate/Energy Law & Policy, http://www.teachingclimatelaw.org Twitter: https://twitter.com/wil_burns Skype ID: Wil.Burns -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
