A confluence of factors, including heavily tenured-in departments, fewer tenure-track positions, demographic trends, and a glut of Ph.D.s looking for employment, have placed tremendous strain on junior faculty members, making the tenure barrier increasingly difficult to surmount.
For many years, academicians blamed a nearly empty "pipeline" for the low numbers of women seeking faculty positions in U.S. universities and for the fact that women hold far fewer tenured full professorships than men at U.S. universities, particularly in the sciences.
With far too few tenure-track jobs up for grabs -- and intense competition for those few -- what will happen to the current generation of postdocs?
That fact leaves very few tenure-track positions available to postdocs, and leads to a system in which multiple postdocs are a fact of life.
No one hires scholars for the precious few tenure-track jobs unless they are stellar, especially in today's buyer's market.
If you think that an MFA and a teaching assistantship lead to a cushy job as a professor, rethink your decision because most of the few tenure-track creative writing jobs out there every year require a published book to get hired.
The reasons are thought to include longer postdocs and fewer new tenure slots at universities.
As possible reasons, they point to fewer new tenure-track positions and more complex biology, among others.
In Newark, under McCarthy's tenure, fewer than 1% of the citizen complaints of police abuse led to any form of discipline by the NPD's internal disciplinary apparatus.
Few researchers had tenure, so there was a high turnover.
Given that Scott worried about his league's being labeled "U.S.C. plus nine" early in his tenure, few could have predicted a season in which two teams, neither of them the Trojans, could finish ranked in the top four.
