Tenure and the political autonomy of faculty inquiry
Anne Jaap Jacobson a1 a1 Departments of Philosophy and Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Center for Neuro-Engineering and Cognitive Science, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-3004. ajjacobson@uh.eduhttp://www.class.uh.edu/phil/jacobson/
This commentary discusses several problems with the target article by Ceci et al. First, the results admit of an alternative interpretation that undercuts the conclusion drawn. In addition, at a number of points, the research should be supplemented by examining situations in which there is no tenure-granting policy. Finally, 60% of the questions are concerned with whistle-blowing, but the issues involved in such cases make them much less relevant to the assessment of tenure than the authors suppose.
