Talk:Academic tenure

Tenure denial
Tenure denial. Benjamin (talk) 01:40, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

Page mixes opinion with fact
The article seems to be pushing an agenda, and seems to be arguing that tenure is outdated. The statement “once defended” academic freedom is an opinion and should probably be reverted to “is defending.” The quote from Lee Smolin is out of context. Hmmuc (talk) 13:39, 23 November 2017 (UTC)

To elaborate, the point of view of the article as is is that (a) tenure is outdated and (b) in order to obtain tenure, an academic must comply with certain academic preoccupations. The article mentions string theory as such a preoccupation, but might as well mean “climate change”. I’m short, I believe the article pushes the agenda of someone who wants to eliminate tenure so that dangerous things like climate research are no longer protected by academic freedom. Hmmuc (talk) 14:07, 23 November 2017 (UTC)

WRT "once defending", I was informed that tenure at this school currently only excuses the holder from publishing; controversial and non-PC statements can be referred to the faculty senate or board of trustees, who have full freedom to act based upon the political damage the statement inflicts on the university. 128.237.237.135 (talk) 22:05, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

The fact that an anonymous user "was once informed" of anything amounts to precisely nothing. Quantum Knot (talk) 17:48, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

Is this position equivalent to the "professore ordinario" of Italian school system?
As the title says. Ogoorcs (talk) 13:10, 4 July 2020 (UTC)

Arguments in favour/against sections unclear
The Arguments in Favour and Arguments Against sections confuse Arguments for/against "Tenure" with arguments for/against "Tenure track". These are two quite distinct concepts, most countries with developed higher education systems have something akim to academic tenure but the tenure track system is quite specific to some countries e.g. the U.S.A. The Arguments in favour/against sections of the Wikipedia article on Academic Tenure should not contain arguments referring specifically to the tenure track system e.g. arguments in favour/against a system of Academic tenure without a Tenure track. Jqt (talk) 21:12, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

UK "research lecturer" unsourced
I am about to remove from the article a mention that in the UK there is a "research lecturer" position. Although some "lecturer" positions include research responsibilities and some (likely a minority) do not, the phrase "research lecturer" never occurs (to my knowledge; I'm an academic and have worked at several UK universities) and it is incorrect to imply that unqualified "lecturer" refers reliably to a position without research responsibilities. The cited reference (here) does not support it. Stephen lamppost (talk) 18:26, 27 February 2022 (UTC)