Richard P. Chait is Professor of Higher Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Charles T. Clotfelter is Z. Smith Reynolds Professor of Public Policy Studies at Duke University.

• List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgments Introduction Richard P. Chait 1. Why Tenure? Why Now? Richard P. Chait 2. What Is Current Policy? Cathy A. Trower 3. Does Faculty Governance Differ at Colleges with Tenure and Colleges without Tenure? Richard P. Chait 4. Can the Tenure Process Be Improved? R. Eugene Rice, Mary Deane Sorcinelli 5. What Happened to the Tenure Track? Roger G. Baldwin, Jay L. Chronister 6. How Are Faculty Faring in Other Countries? Philip G. Altbach 7. Can Colleges Competitively Recruit Faculty without the Prospect of Tenure? Cathy A. Trower 8. Can Faculty Be Induced to Relinquish Tenure? Charles T. Clotfelter 9. Why Is Tenure One College's Problem and Another's Solution? William T. Mallon 10. How Might Data Be Used? Cathy A. Trower, James P. Honan 11. Gleanings Richard P. Chait Contributors Index

Most books about academic tenure are based on anecdotal or subjective information, but this one attempts to analyze this contentious topic using empirical research. Chait...and several colleagues collected faculty employment policy statements from over 200 colleges and universities and then surveyed and interviewed many professors and administrators on a variety of topics related to tenure. This provided the data for the 11 chapters, which range from an overview of current policies to a study of trends in academic employment in foreign countries.