To make grant-writing easier for people off the tenure track, Duke's medical school recently changed the nomenclature of its faculty tracks, moving from coded names such as associate clinical professor to a more neutral numbering system, such as Track V professor.
Back in the United States, Don was tenured at ORNL, and Ada stayed on the research-faculty track.
On the face of it, the mere fact that natural selection would not have 'designed' our moral faculties to track moral truths accurately (as it plausibly designed our perceptual faculties to track facts about medium sized objects in typical human environments) is not obviously problematic.
Quotas for size would differ enormously depending on whether tenured faculty, tenure-track faculty, associates, post-graduates, pre-graduates, supporting staff, and close collaborators (some not even in the same location) are counted or not.
Faculty members tracked the number of conference presentations and peer-reviewed publications coauthored by undergraduate research students each year.
We are replacing tenure-track faculty with underpaid course facilitators who simply echo the contents of a textbook without any original thinking.
Full-time non-tenure track faculty increased by 259percentt, part-time faculty by 286percentt and full-time non-faculty professional staff by a whopping 369percentt.
"We're not even hiring tenure-track faculty to replace the tenure-track faculty that's retiring," said John Curtis, director of research and public policy at the association.
In the current academic year, USC has 1,472 tenured and tenure-track faculty members and 4,265 non-tenure-track faculty, according to the university.
