Business education

It’s Time for Tenure to Lose Tenure

Anachronistic jobs-for-life are keeping U.S. universities from adapting.

by

James C. Wetherbe

by

James C. Wetherbe

March 13, 2013

At no other time in history has the American higher education system been in greater need of radical change. The place to start: abolishing tenure.

James C. Wetherbe is the Robert G. Stevenson Chaired Professor in Information Technology at the Rawls College of Business Administration of Texas Tech University. He is the founding editor of the Entrepreneur and Innovation Exchange (eiexchange.com) and the founder of the Institute for Internet Buyer Behavior, founder of the FedEx Center for Cycle Time research at the University of Memphis, and former Director of the MIS Research Center at the University of Minnesota.

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