Up for Tenure by Natividad Macaranas

This drama-murder story is a work of fiction. Since the author is a professor at the time of this writing, she wants it clearly understood that the five faculty members who are the characters in this story, and who are all clamoring to be tenured are all fictional. The story gives you an idea of how the lives of people intersect with each other and how their common dreams end up in different places and circumstances most of the time. Read the story and see what happened to the five faculty members who originally had sought tenure: Dr Don Duffy, Dr Nancy Bowen, Dr Matt O'Shea, Dr Joe Scott and Dr Julie Galang. If you are in the academe, you would find some situations familiar, some scenes so factual and your experiences are probably similar to some of those experienced by these characters. Enjoy the book!

About the Author
Natividad Macaranas was born in the Philippines. She earned her MA from the University of the Philippines and her Ph. D. in Education with emphasis in psychology from Stanford University. She taught Psychology at Eastern New Mexico University for twenty-eight years and was Chairperson of the Psychology Department when she retired in 1993. Her other books are Growing Up in the Philippines; Bravely They Fought which is about the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines and Chocolate Island. Except for the WWll title, the two other titles are now out of print.

Publisher : Brown Literary Enterprises, New York (2001)
Language : English
Paperback : 167 pages
ISBN: 1-57087-571-3