Then they'll ask each other questions such as, "Which is better, three articles in second-tier publications plus a book or two articles in high-impact publications and some conference proceedings?" They'll debate the answer as if they're second-century Talmudic rabbis, concluding that you may or may not deserve tenure, but it's getting close to lunchtime, so they'll have to finish this later.
And the pressure does not go away after you have landed a tenure-track position, because the next challenges are to secure grant money and to convince your new colleagues that you deserve tenure.
It bars school administrators from considering student test scores when determining whether a teacher deserves to get tenure.
The back-room debate in recent days has focused on a piece of language, which was mysteriously inserted into the education section of the budget, that bars school administrators from considering student test scores when determining whether a teacher deserves to get tenure.
There should be a term in German that describes the sinking feeling you have when reading a serious book of scholarship, one whose determined author deserves praise and tenure, that no civilian reader should pick up, that will not warm in your hands, that will make you regret the 10 hours of your life lost to it, and that, once put down, will not cry out to be picked back up.
Departments were asked to determine their own ways of assigning rooms, but the task is complicated by factors like seniority and rank — does someone with tenure deserve a better room?
The lawlessness which frustrated so many with the Bush administration, particularly during Mr Gonzales's tenure as attorney-general, deserves some legal remedy.
Tenure is a remarkable institution that deserves active discussion of the kind Dr. McNutt's editorial has initiated.
Clinton deserves credit for her good work at the State Department, but that tenure will very possibly be seen differently by 2016, and not because of Benghazi.
