Explain to Me Why Tenure is Worth More than a Higher Wage / myLot

By Uncle Jay, Finding More Value in Your Machine

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

July 28, 2021 9:26pm CST

In another NIGHTLINE-story, I heard that a college-professor quit the university because--even though they offered him 'more money' than he was currently making--they wouldn't give him tenure! Why not take the money?

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NJ Chicaa

@NJChicaa (115972)

• United States

29 Jul 21

I'd want the tenure

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Uncle Jay, Finding More Value in Your Machine

@mythociate (21437)

• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

29 Jul 21

Am I right in guessing that 'tenure' makes you 'almost un-fire-able'?

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NJ Chicaa

@NJChicaa (115972)

• United States

29 Jul 21

@mythociate Yes as long as you don't kill or sleep with a student. There are other requirements linked to evaluations and such but tenure is a great thing. If there are layoffs in my department they start at the bottom (the newest hires). My ex always encouraged me to switch to a different school district because I was struggling with parents so much. I refused because I didn't want to give up my tenure.

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Lucky Roo

@youfiq (2572)

• United States

30 Jul 21

If it's me, then I've made the wrong decision if I have to drop out of that university. money is not everything but everything needs money, we can't live if we don't have money

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AnjaP

@Rollo1 (16679)

• Boston, Massachusetts

29 Jul 21

Tenure basically guarantees him a job for life, unless he does something really outrageous like kidnapping the dean. It means that when the college makes cuts they will fire other professors and not him. He's looking for cushy security. Or his ego might tell him he deserves the honor of tenure.

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