My Tenure Biennium a Memoir

The case was that of Wayne Bell who, since he had received an early promotion the previous year, expected that his tenure decision would be routine and positive. Instead, he found himself cast in the role of a pawn in that tangle of administrative conflicts. This is the true story of that tenure case, Bell's struggle to understand what was happening, the support that he received from surprising sources, and the curious nature of the role that he was to play in the events.

Prior to the Curris Conflict in 1981, Murray State University had been proceeding on a well trodden path from normal school, to college, to regional university. (See Ken Wolf's review below.)

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