An expert on tenure describes best practices for getting tenure.
Richard Chait, an expert on tenure and an advocate of reform, calls the current mixture of tenured and non-tenure-track appointments "unprecedented".
But a consensus emerged among aviation experts that their tenure was typically too short to learn their jobs and have an impact, hampering modernization.
And Mika Brzezinski, a co-anchor of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," said, "Where would all of us be without her?" Overall, media and expert assessments of her tenure at the State Department have been measured, fair and positive.
Richard Nolte, a Middle East expert whose three-week tenure as American ambassador to Egypt in 1967 ended when the country expelled him during the 1967 Middle East War, even though he had sympathized with the Arab cause, died Nov. 22 at his home in Hanover, N.H.
Richard Zare, former department chair at Stanford University's Chemistry Department, for example, wrote that the department collects 10 15 recommendation letters from outside experts prior to the tenure decision [6].
Foreign policy experts say Tillerson's tenure did damage to the State Department that could last a generation, according to Vox.com.
Shoppers who can't get the hang of it may call a hot line where "Professional Swim Fit" operators — they are "tenured experts" who have "specialized fit training" — furnish counsel.
One art expert agreed the director's tenure had not always been positive: "She is scholarly and prim but also quite quirky and maverick," they said, adding: "However, she's rather lacking in the popular touch, as a curator and with people.
Many experts say Mr. Berlusconi's tenure in the prime minister's job, the longest in Italy's postwar era, in itself represents the greatest change and contribution to a country where repeated government turnover has been a continuing problem.
