Tenure in higher education

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English 201 Rhetoric and Composition II Argumentation 6/20/2005 TENURE IN HIGHER EDUCATION Tenure is a topic that has produced much hatred discussion in recent years. Some argue that tenure is an outdated concept, and if institutions are going to stay in a competive nature, they need to be able to have more flexibility to hire and fire faculty as student needs change. Others argue that tenure is vital to the protection of academic freedom and that without …

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…child's education or even your own. You can look at it from the point of well tenure teachers are lazy or some can give you a very good outlook on life. Or you can look at the stability of the entire situation. I guess you need to look at each and every teacher on an individual basis in order to figure out whether tenure is good for the system or its' bad for the system...