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Colleges consider tenure
By NICK ANDERSON | September 30Many of the nation's research universities are moving to address the difficult balance professors often have to strike between pursuing tenure and having a family. A recent Chicago conference of 27 major research institutions convened to discuss reforms in the tenure system to ease that trade-off. "The fact that teams from that many universities attended shows that many in higher education feel this is a pressing need," said Carol Hollenshead, director of the Center for the Education of Women at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.
