3 ms·

Sorry, but I don't understand how forcing people to find a new job after 10-15 years ensures they're not forced out of their homeland.

• Al-Khwarizmi 5y ago
  The comment you reply to didn't mention forcing people to find a new job. As far as I understand, they could apply to the same job. But they would have to apply and earn it again, which means that (at least, if the process is fair) they wouldn't be able to stop caring about doing a good job due to having a guaranteed job for life.
  • webmaven 5y ago
    > [T]hey could apply to the same job. But they would have to apply and earn it again, which means that (at least, if the process is fair) they wouldn't be able to stop caring about doing a good job due to having a guaranteed job for life. But that means that a tenured professor will start acting in non-academically-independent ways at some point before their tenure is up to avoid messing up their re-applicaction. It is also quite likely that events such as departmental re-orgs could be timed around tenure expiration to eliminate specific job descriptions in order to make re-applying more difficult. You might be able to achieve the same goals though some combination of making tenure transferrable between cooperating institutions, mandatory sabbaticals, requiring review committees be partly or wholely staffed from outside the institution, etc.