To the extent that tenure supports academic freedom, I support tenure. I want no person or system to have any power, real or apparent, to chill academic freedom.
~ James E. Rogers
We Americans have the great gifts of freedom and democracy, but it has been our education system that has fulfilled the promise of democracy.
I come from a profession which has suffered greatly because of the lack of civility. Lawyers treat each other poorly and it has come home to haunt them. The public will not tolerate a lack of civility.
