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What Academia Means — and What It Demands
The word is older than the university. The obligations it carries are younger, and still changing.

The word is older than the university. The obligations it carries are younger, and still changing.

Tenure is a review process and a dismissal standard, not a lifetime job guarantee. Here is what the system does — and the limits its own rules build in.

A capture–recapture analysis doubles the accepted lifespan estimate. The case is interesting, and weaker than the headline suggests.