Tenure was not designed as a merit badge for research-intensive faculty. . . . Tenure was conceived as a right rather than a privilege. —AAUP, Tenure and Teaching-Intensive Appointments, 2010 The 1940 ...

The U.S. Supreme Court in Perry v. Sindermann recognized that " [a] teacher . . . who has held his position for a number of years, might be able to show from the circumstances of this service--and ...

In accord with principles of shared governance described by the AAUP and other organizations over the course of several decades, the faculty should participate meaningfully in major decisions about ...