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Over at Reassigned Time, "Dr. Crazy" offers a remarkably sane post on what tenure means to her:
I have a number of friends at various institutions that are up for tenure this year. Every school is on its own unique schedule, of course, so some of my friends are finding out right about now, officially or unofficially (mostly unofficially) whether they will be tenured or not.
Over at Pure Pedantry, Jake Young has an anti-tenure post that repeats one of the classic mistaken arguments:
Your must-read academic link of the week is today's Inside Higher Ed article by Gary Lewandoski, with the provocative title: Stop Trying to Get Tenure and Start Trying to Enjoy Yourself.

I can't bring myself to cheer the first article. I have no doubt that evangelicals will bring the same rationality to global warming and poverty that they brought to the issue of same-sex marriage.

The nouveau Bull Moose Party is a'courtin' precisely those it so voluably abhorred for so long. The GOP platform of aggressive ignorance embraces everyone with fewer teeth than fingers or fewer IQ points than ambient degrees (presumably Fahrenheit and south of the Mason-Dixon line). Republicants' Rush Toward Failure is a mighty mirror of Democraps' social engineering from income redistribution, forced busing, and diversity to forced hiring.

Jesus horribly died before His horrible toll collectors could horribly impose His horrible will upon men. Rest assured that come what may, Washington's alphabet soup of armed incompetence will never have its reticle wander from your wallet. It is an an inconvenient truth that only the Carbon Tax on Everything can save us, administered by carbon credit arbitrageurs like Al Gore, Jr. Pay up sucker, "Hodie mihi, cras tibi".

I blogged about the second article, concerning the challenges of a woman in a t-t engineering position at UIUC and contrasting them with my view from a CC.