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The tenure question Updated May 14, 2021, 2 hours ago Email to a Friend Students on the lawn outside the Charles Deering Library at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., in September 2020. Because of the pandemic, Northwestern and other universities extended deadlines for faculty members to publish work that would help them earn tenure.OLIVIA OBINEME/NYT Bid to limit years of service wrongly blames faculty for woes in higher education The May 9 editorial “Academic tenure is in desperate need of reform” (May 9, 2021) could not be more correct in identifying the need for more â�...

The hunger-for-vaccine games Email to a Friend Getting a spot for a shot shouldn’t come down to luck Governor Baker, please do us all a favor and take a vacation. I hear it’s nice in Cancun. A nice dip in the ocean would help put out the fire in your hair (”For Charlie Baker, ‘sorry’ is the hardest word,” Joan Vennochi, Opinion, Feb. 23). While you’re gone, ask the computer science department across the river to take over the vaccine website. It’s been over a week since you acknowledged that its fouled up. And it’s still not working. I’m 74 ye...