Sentence examples for awarding tenure from inspiring English sources
For example, earlier this century, when other schools had tenured women on their faculties, Harvard dallied for decades before awarding tenure to such renowned scientists as variable star expert Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and biologist Ruth Turner.
While state law outlines the general procedures for awarding tenure to teachers, the details are left to individual districts.
"The current system of awarding tenure devalues great teachers by treating teachers as if they are widgets on an assembly line," said John White, a deputy chancellor for strategy.
Awarding tenure is a sacred trust, which one must always contemplate through the prism of how it will affect each child, each class and the hundreds of pupils throughout the years.
Even in those states, student performance is not the predominant criterion for awarding tenure.
They now have influence on committees for awarding tenure and hiring faculty," says Linette Watkins, former chair of the American Chemical Society ACS Committee on Minority Affairsrs.
Dr. Davis was awarded tenure the following year.
His career was meteoric: he was awarded tenure at Princeton at 32.
Nearly all teachers whose students improved significantly received tenure, while principals awarded tenure to fewer than half of those whose students lost ground on the state tests.
And when a faculty committee is looking to hire or award tenure, political ideology seems to make a difference, according to a "collegiality survey" conducted by George Yancey.
After being awarded tenure, Laura has a panic attack about how she is wasting her life in East Lansing, when what she really wants to do is write pop-history books about America's First Ladies.
