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   J. Nathan Matias 🦣 (natematias@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 13:23:55 JST J. Nathan Matias 🦣

   This week, as I start focusing on my tenure file, I have been asking what the point is of being a professor in the tenure system. I reflected on this Sunday on a ride out to a community pancake breakfast.

   What’s so important that the people of a democracy would offer someone the potential of long term job security and intellectual freedom (however precarious), even at times of hardship and deprivation? And what kind of promise could ever be equal to that extraordinary trust? #OutdoorMoments