Tenure in Higher Education: Property Right Or No Rights‪?‬

Introduction The university tenure process for faculty occurs within both a micro culture, a single institution, and a macro culture, such as a university system and/or the power and influence of major funding sources like state and national governments. Many attempts, some successful, have focused on eliminating tenure in the namesake of any one of the following: realignment, restructure, reform, reinvent, reshape, review, redundancy, and resource management.