Automatic Tenure-Clock Extensions as a Safeguard Against Defunding—Annals of Internal Medicine

Read article—In an Ideas and Opinions piece in the Annals of Internal Medicine, Charles Thomas, MD, chair of radiation oncology at Geisel, and Bismarck Christian Odei, MD, from the University of Utah School of Medicine, warns that recent federal defunding of diversity, equity, and inclusion programs and other politically sensitive research threatens tenure-track faculty careers, particularly those from historically marginalized groups, and urges universities to adopt automatic, time-limited tenure-clock extensions with institutional support to protect academic careers and scientific inquiry.