The Standards Review Committee on July 10 voiced initial support for a proposal to require that schools at least provide full-time faculty members with a “program of presumptively renewable long-term contracts that are at least five years in duration after a probationary period reasonably similar to that for tenure-track faculty members.”
The contracts would not provide the same job security as tenure, but would offer more protection than exists at present for many nontenured faculty, who often work under short-term contracts.
