Tenure in the Sacred Grove: Issues and Strategies for Women and Minority Faculty (review)

In the opening chapter of Tenure in the Sacred Grove: Issues and Strategies for Women and Minority Faculty, editors Joanne Cooper and Dannelle Stevens explain that they use the term "sacred grove" to honor, update, and extend the classic text about women faculty- Women of Academe: Outsiders in the Sacred Grove (Aisenberg & Harrington, 1988). Cooper and Stevens' book is about the history and context of tenure and the sacred grove, "a sane, safe, and open place that is holy and unable to be violated" (p. 4). The book focuses particularly on the issues women and minority faculty are likely to face in their quest to enter the sacred groves of academe and offers a compendium of advice to provide sound strategy for the journey.