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Nobody seeking a tenured job willingly take one in a state that break this arrangement with those who have them. Many universities have created such a tiered faculty that coming after tenured faculty isn't worth what the cost in political capital for what they get out of it. We have a fairly strong union, as these things go, but it's a child of the tenured in the prestigeous parts of the university. The main thing we've needed to do for years is to address the divisions in the faculty itself. The problem within the faculty has always been the problem with craft unions representing an aristocracy of labor. Here, innovations of all sort are implemented on the part-timers and the newcomers, and the tenured few are left alone. The question is whether they replace tenured retirees with tenureable hires. And, of course, we can expect a trend where the teaching load tenured faculty carry can be expected to increase. All that said, tenure is alive and well and it still means something. It's just that that it is changing. ML ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
