This article investigates the problems that confront academe and suggests that faculty work has changed so profoundly in recent years that tenure is no longer sufficient and/or necessary. The author argues that intellectual freedom and accountability are competing demands that must be met simultaneously. He reviews the problems that exist, how tenure exacerbates those problems, and how an expanded faculty career profile might be one way to solve some of the vexing problems that confront colleges and universities.

Is faculty tenure too exp