Re "A Surplus of Scholars Fight for Jobs in Academia" (Personal Business, Jan . 16, which discussed how people holding humanities doctorates have difficulty finding tenure-track positions at universities: As Ph.D.'s who moved from academia to business nearly 20 years ago, we see the problem as old news.
At successive milestones on the academic career path--from finding a tenure-track position to receiving tenure to getting promoted--women lag further and further behind men in terms of their chances of success.
In addition, I knew that finding a tenure-track job was a part-time job in itself!
Ms. Wiggs, the postdoc-turned-grants-reviewer at the N.I.H.'s Center for Scientific Review, has no sob story about her adviser, despite her finding no tenure-track job after six years at the lab.
Mr. Keller has sought to reduce the "widespread sense of favoritism or cronyism" that the Siegal Committee reported finding during the tenure of Howell Raines, the former executive editor.
[ 15] Based on this finding we included tenure in our model.
Michelle Karnes Palo Alto, Calif., March 8 , 2009 To the Editor: Because every few years you publish an article discussing the difficulties that Ph.D.'s in the humanities have in finding work as tenure-track professors, there was little new in your most recent article.
Indeed, there have been many articles rightly bemoaning the difficulties of PhD graduates in finding full-time tenure-track appointments, but I feel that I'm one of the lucky ones, not because I got an academic job, but because I got out of the higher ed "rat race" altogether.
Against all logic, we are now engaged in finding ways to give tenure to fewer of those who remain.
Mr Vine has published more than 50 inspection reports during his near six-year tenure, including findings that exposed huge backlogs in the now-defunct UK Border Agency.
Our findings show that getting tenure in sociology is strongly related to scholarly output, as previous studies have shown.
