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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They should just end tenure at age 80. Put a term limit on it. [/quote] I also think that aging professors is a bigger problem than the actual system of tenure. I would drop the age to 70. My mom is still going strong at 78 complaining about students and younger colleagues more and more every year. She has no interest in mentoring anybody at this point. She has had 2 colleagues where the university had to get family members to intervene because these folks had early stages of dementia and were making both their students and colleagues miserable. I keep encouraging her to retire, but, there seems to be no incentive for her to do so. I'm at a think tank, and we have the same problem. Elderly research staff won't retire, but complain that younger staff (I am 50!) won't take up the "mantle of leadership". GTFO. Rant over! [/quote]
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