Behavioral and Brain Sciences



Open Peer Commentary

Tenure as a necessary but not sufficient requirement for academic freedom


John Ruscio a1 and April Kelly-Woessner a2
a1 Department of Psychology, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ 08628 ruscio@tcnj.edu
a2 Department of Political Science, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA 17022. kellya@etown.edu http://www.etown.edu/PoliticalScience.aspx

Article author query
ruscio j   [PubMed][Google Scholar] 
kelly-woessner a   [PubMed][Google Scholar] 

Abstract

Although the job security afforded by tenure is one important factor in deciding whether or how to exercise academic freedom, professors must weigh a number of other important career goals that constrain their choices. This multiplicity of goals, combined with concerns about career mobility, may help to explain the differences Ceci et al. observe between professors at different ranks.

(Published Online February 8 2007)