The Faculty Lounges

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jul 6, 2011

Journalist Naomi Schaefer Riley argues that tenure—the job security entitlement that comes with a university position—is at the heart of so many problems with higher education today. In The Faculty Lounges: And Other Reasons Why You Won't Get The College Education You Pay For she explores how tenure and the job security, mediocre salaries, and low levels of accountability it entails may be attracting the least innovative and interesting members of our society into teaching.

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