11. She has challenged the university's ultimate sacred cow, the tenure system , saying it discriminates against women. 12. Those who perform poorly must be ousted, not held in place by an outmoded tenure system . 13. Meanwhile, the tenure system protected the senior faculty. 14. On education, Ferguson proposes merit pay for good teachers and an end to the tenure system . 15. The basic idea of the Flexible Land Tenure System is to establish an interchangeable freehold tenure. 16. The association opposes the current tenure system . 17. Created as a guarantor of academic freedom, the tenure system has become a weapon of economic privilege. 18. Trinity's tenure system had been viewed by Kurland and many other academicians as being among the fairest. 19. In 1966 Orr received some financial compensation from the University, which also established a cast-iron tenure system . 20. And in 1998, he denounced the tenure system in public schools, imperiling his relationship with powerful teachers'unions.