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...proposal from the provost's office at Boston University (BU) aims to shake up the time-honored tenure system and keep professors from getting lazy...
Sidney Redner, a BU physics professor, criticized the new policy for being too much of "a business model," and said he disliked its emphasis on efficiency and value...
...Given changes in the law forbidding mandatory retirement, people with tenure can continue forever and lose their effectiveness," said Fred K. Faulkes, professor of organizational behavior at BU and a member of the Tenure Discussion Group (TDG), the 10-person faculty committee formed by the provost to review the university's tenure policy...
...report, which was two years in the making, outlines a twofold purpose for the new policy: to improve the quality of education at BU, and, by linking salaries to performance, to control the surging faculty payroll...
...BU will shell out $242 million to its faculty this year--a figure that has nearly doubled in the past six years alone...