Talk:The Junior Professor Solution/@comment-31.185.159.246-20140818103550/@comment-3125805-20160511152458

Wouldn't you need a HR person on the tenure comittee to advise on practical issues of contract, salary, employment law, et c, or to advise the committee of academics that the candidate has a bad track record re. sexual harrassment and innappropriate behaviour, and giving them a job for life might be storing up trouble for the future re. lawsuits and bad publicity? You do need somebody to keep academics grounded re. pesky little non-academic trivia like this! (ie - there are inescapable everyday practical issues connected with employment, regardless of how brilliant an academic the candidate for tenure is. And Sheldon has been called in to HR on MANY occassions to answerr complaints...)