I would not have stayed at a university if it told me…

My father was a university professor and his thing was tenure. Any time I hear a university professor say tenure, I hear the word…

— Robert Kiyosaki

I'm not a stereotypical professor type. I don't smoke a pipe and wear a tweedy jacket. I'm more like a student who stayed at…

— Patrick Rothfuss

It was only in university I was told that I was dyslexic. It kind of gave me the confidence to be able to pursue…

— Erin Richards

I taught policy and politics for seven years at a university. I told my students lobbyists are not a bad thing; they're absolutely vital.

— Mike Quigley

DePaul's plot to deny me tenure had nothing to do with my faults. In fact, and ironically, it viciously attacked me and destroyed my…

— Norman Finkelstein

The whole purpose of annual reviews is to keep you abreast of whether or not you are fulfilling the requirements of tenure.

— Norman Finkelstein

Only the strongest are put through the fire,' Josiah said. 'And the forge creates things of great strength and beauty.' 'Then I shall be…

— Sharon Shinn

Many conservatives see higher education as a threat to their reactionary and corporate oriented interests and would like to defund higher education, privatize it,…

— Henry Giroux

Let the Common School be expanded to its capabilities, let it be worked with the efficiency of which it is susceptible, and nine tenths…

— Horace Mann

Historically, professors have defended tenure as a way to protect their individualistic thought. But tenure can also be used as a club to wield…

— Ben Shapiro

I never graduated high school; they had to change the Ivy League rules. During my tenure at Brown, I helped them become the number…

— Robert Evans

But I will say, I think there are some Democrats that don't want to address pension reform. I have taken on the issue of…

— Antonio Villaraigosa

In five years of my previous tenure, the treasury was never shut for one day.

— Amarinder Singh

Conservative political opinion in America cleaves to the tradition of the judge as passive interpreter, believing that his absolute loyalty to authoritative law is…

— Learned Hand

I was hired for a really excellent academic job early in my life; I was twenty-five when I started at Princeton and I got…

— Paul Lansky