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Article: Lingua franca, Making The Grade
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- December 11, 1990
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The response to a trial-balloon issue of Lingua franca, the
independent-minded, idiosyncratic and tweaky new "review of academic
life," was apparently enthusiastic enough that regular publication
can begin.
The first (December) issue deals with the uncomfortable topic
of academic deadwood: the scholarly coasters and dodderers who
inhabit the impregnable cone of tenure. Jon Wiener looks at efforts
to weed them out by reforming (and thus violating) the tenure system
at a few universities, including the University of Arizona and his
own institution, Cal State Irvine. Having made the problem seem
serious enough to fix, Wiener comes away unimpressed by the existing
remedies.
In another ...
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