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Why Worry?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” Although the AAUP is highly concerned about post-tenure review programs that could lead to faculty members’ termination, it is even more concerned about the replacement of tenured with contingent positions, said the organization’s senior researcher. percent in 2004 to 54.4 percent in 2021.

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Reflections of the Career of a University Expatriate

Edu Alliance Journal

And for some scholars, there are academic benefits to living and working in a locality or culture where one’s research is centered. Research priorities may need to shift. But in an international setting, other factors come to bear on a scholar’s ability to sustain a research agenda. Import of laboratory equipment is costly.