Before the storm: Tenure, as seen from one year away
Readers' thoughts and suggestions
What will tenure look like in 2012?
What some of our readers did, or have to do (if still on tenure-track), to earn tenure.
Summer sunlight streams through the windows of the mostly-empty classrooms at Drexel University in Philadelphia. Outside on the campus green, maintenance workers appear to outnumber students. In the third floor hallway of Stratton Hall, the arts and sciences building, Aleister Saunders and one of his students sit alone, their heads tipped toward each other, conferring. Saunders stands up. "You okay? Get what you're doing now?" The student nods, and Saunders moves on. It's 41 days before his tenure application is due, and he has a lot to take care of.
Five years ago, Saunders, now 38, traded a ...
