I don't know about the particular case in the article, but I thought the tradition of tenure was partly to permit professors to pursue currently-unpopular ideas, like perhaps this person was doing at Duke. I didn't know a prominent university would have a non-tenure-track professor teaching for 20 years. What is that hefty tuition paying for?
I've talked with some tenured professors who hire adjuncts, and they feel bad about the situation, but those individual professors had no say over it. Perhaps if entire faculties came together and petitioned, at least at the wealthier places, universities might spring for all instructors being tenure-track professors (assisted by grad students).
I've talked with some tenured professors who hire adjuncts, and they feel bad about the situation, but those individual professors had no say over it. Perhaps if entire faculties came together and petitioned, at least at the wealthier places, universities might spring for all instructors being tenure-track professors (assisted by grad students).