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Academic tenure was not conceived in today's adverse inflationary climate. Average real academic salaries have been falling for a decade. Under the merit raise system, possibilities for enormous erosion of tenurial substance are especially great. A sample survey was conducted to discover current practices and to test faculty and administration perceptions of how salary policy may impinge on tenure under inflation. Most agreed that the merit system's flaws are magnified under inflation, that tenurial substance is not separable from salary, and that a concurrent need exists to protect tenure and reward merit. Reassuringly, most institutions have embraced a mixed raise policy congenial to that need. The paper concludes with a recommended formula to systematize the mixed practice. |
