By the number of A's, the number of F's? Smith argued that faculty can get tenure.
Can life tenure be a sufficient measure of independence, when other criteria than a distinguished legal career or judicial temperament dictate the character of appointments?
Mary Loftus Levine, executive director of the Connecticut Education Association, the state's largest teachers' union, disputed Mr. Malloy's characterization that teachers can get tenure just by showing up, and she said the union supported efforts to improve training, certification and evaluation procedures for teachers.
The sixth lesson is that "it's still probably not advisable for graduate students or junior faculty to blog instead of focus on tenurable research," presumably because it's only by publishing articles and books — and doing the original research that will go into them — that an academic can get tenure.
Such is their prestige that a researcher can win tenure, promotion or a research grant on the basis of a single article in the right publication.That means the publishers of those journals have the pick of the best papers, reinforcing their reputations in a positive feedback loop.
In California, teachers can earn tenure, or permanent job security, in two years.
The life of an archaeologist seems glamorous in Indiana Jones, but that's because there are no scenes of him revising 30-page research articles about tertiary religious ceremonies in ancient Sumeria for an editing review with an academic journal so he can get tenure.
We have an experienced staff -- 92percentt of our teachers hold advanced degrees and 30percentt are mentors for new teachers who go through two-year internships before they can become tenured in Connecticut".
Like many department chairs at Brown, Armstrong is "a big fan of the advanced assistant professorship," meaning she likes to bring in people who can be tenured quickly, putting them on the professional fast track.
"Politicians," said Robert L. Hedlund, a Republican state senator during Mr. Romney's tenure, "can be petty — it can be the little things that upset them, not the big picture".
