Perhaps the best place to get started is the homepage of the American Association of University Professors: http://www.igc.apc.org/aaup. The site has links to several pages and position papers, including "In Defense of Tenure" ( http://www.igc.org/aaup/jeped44.htm) and "On Post-Tenure Review" ( http://www.igc.apc.org/aaup/postten.htm).

Another timely offering is an article by Harvard professor Richard Chait that appears in the July/August issue of Harvard Magazine ( http://www.harvard-magazine.com/ja97/forum.html.) Chait makes a case for replacing tenure with "new templates" for academic employment. To hear from those on the other side of the coin, visit http://www.ahc.umn.edu/td/art.html. There you'll find several links to articles about tenure, many written by university leaders and touting tenure's virtues.

Academic medical centers have their own special concerns about tenure. For a lengthy bibliography of publications that explore tenure, promotions, and other issues of concern to medical faculty go to http://aamcinfo.aamc.org/ns-search/findinfo/ aamcpubs/biblio/biblio.htm?NS-search.

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