“I am tempted to say — in order to be maximally provocative — that anyone who publishes a book within six years of earning a Ph.D. should be denied tenure. The chances a person at that stage can have published something worth chopping that many trees down is unlikely.” —Lindsay Waters, “A Call for Slow Writing”

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The Tenure Gun « Submitted For Your Perusal // April 14, 2008 at 9:28 am
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