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Tenure: Viable or a Dinosaur?
Author(s) -
Brock Anna,
Butts Janie B.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
nursing forum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.618
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1744-6198
pISSN - 0029-6473
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6198.1998.tb00210.x
Subject(s) - dilemma , promotion (chess) , work (physics) , nursing , land tenure , political science , public relations , sociology , medicine , history , law , engineering , epistemology , philosophy , mechanical engineering , archaeology , politics , agriculture
This article discusses the history of tenure in acadmia as well as the current pros and cons of the tenure system. A review of nursing and non‐nursing literature reveals that the most important goal confronting the nation's universities and colleges today is to find more creative ways to define scholarly work and incorporate it into promotion and tenure guidelines. The author presents arguments for and against tenure, reviews the impact of tenure in nursing, and offers recommendations and solutions to the tenure dilemma in nursing.