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Table of Contents Introduction----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------3 Summary of the interview---------------------------------------------------------------------------------4-6 About the interviewee----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------6 About Apollo Information Services----------------------------------------------------------------------6-7 Inside Apollo-----------------------
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hopefully the reader will understand the forces at play and whether its continuation is merited at American colleges and universities of the future. Academic tenure was proposed as early as 1915 and formally defined, following a series of conferences by 1934. A formal statement of academic tenure was officially agreed to by the American Association of University Professors and the Association of American Colleges (and Universities) in 1940. It states that after the expiration of a probationary period
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