An Analysis Of Tenure System In American University

Tenure system is the unique teacher management system of modern American universities. During nearly one hundred years since its establishment in the beginning of 20th century, tenure system has played a very important role in protecting the academic freedom, securing occupational safety, attracting talents, and balancing administrative right and academic right. It has also promoted the rapid development of American higher education, such as financial, the balance of teaching and researching, the assessment of the academy.At the same time, there are many problems in the tenure system in American higher education. In deepening our country colleges and universities teacher appointment system reforming process, drawing tenure system experience and lessons is very necessary. The main body of this paper content includes five parts of the following mainly.The introduction part has expounded the main body of the paper briefly, the background and starting point, the significance and research method, the boundary of the most important concept about the tenure system.Chapter I Establishment and development of the tenure system of the American university. This part reviews how American university tenure system was established and developed, and summarizes and generalizes the exploration and reform that American university tenure system has practiced in reality.Chapter II Basic concept of tenure system of the American university. From the social culture's perspective, this article analyzes the basic concept of the construction of the American university tenure system—protecting academic freedom and securing occupational safety, pointing out that under the US special cultural context, advocating freedom is the driving force of academic freedom; that the individualism values causes the academic freedom to become the natural choice; and that the pragmatism values initiates academic freedom. illustrates the recruitment standard and selection and disemployment procedure of the American university tenure system, and introduces the practice of American Yale University's tenure system.Chapter III The practice of the American university tenure system. This part illustrates the recruitment standard and selection and disemployment procedure of the American university tenure system, and introduces the practice of American Yale University's tenure system.Chapter IV Thoughts on our country's university teacher appointment system reforms based on the American university tenure system.This part rethinks on the American university tenure system, and proposes the basic ideas of reforming our country's university teacher appointment system. That is, the academic standard should be the basic starting point of our country's university teacher appointment system; the avocation of academic freedom should be the basic principle of our country's university teacher appointment system reform; the integration of efficiency and academic should be the goal of academic appraisal mechanism; and the combination of contract system and the tenure system should be the basic structure of our country's university teacher appointment system.