Sentence examples for gaining tenure from inspiring English sources

What if, he asked, a university is dissatisfied with the number of female professors gaining tenure under its usual requirements?

The stark, haunting tracks on The Ghosts of Highway 20 were inspired by a journey back from a gig in downtown Macon, Georgia, passing the towns along Interstate 20, many of which Williams lived in (her father taught English at many Southern universities; in Jackson, Baton Rouge and New Orleans before gaining tenure at the University of Arkansas) or has a personal or family connection to.

The R01 grant is considered the gold standard of biomedical funding, and is often a criterion to gaining tenure.

Traditionally, science-education professors on science faculties moved into the field after gaining tenure on the strength of their teaching and conventional research.

In the UK, for example, there also is an increasing recognition that the career paths of junior researchers need to be better established, with more support for gaining tenure.

The biggest concern amongst those faculty members, says Proctor, is that in making suggestions to change the policy, the newly appointed U of T president, MIT-recruited Robert Birgeneau, wanted to "raise the bar" to gaining tenure.

For instance, under the direction of Bonnie Fleming, the second woman to gain tenure in the physics department at Yale, the students sponsor a semiregular Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics at Yale.

Among them were Robert Rubin, a Wall Street legend; Lawrence Summers, who gained tenure at Harvard at a younger age than anyone before him; and Stanley Fischer, an M.I.T. economist whose students staffed finance ministries worldwide.

Expensive journals cut into a library's budget for scholarly books and monographs, which hurts academic publishers, which hurts the coming generation of scholars who must publish to gain tenure.

KALIDAN, Rochester, posted on nytimes.com WOMEN IN SCIENCE In her Oct. 6 article, Eileen Pollack discussed extensively the experience of women in physics at Yale, noting that Meg Urry and Bonnie Fleming were the first and second women to gain tenure in the physics department, after their respective appointments in 2001 and 2009.

Other faculty members, granted anonymity to discuss a matter that the university considers confidential, said that Dr. Platt had been denied promotion from assistant to associate professor, meaning that he would not gain tenure and would probably have to leave Harvard in the next year or two.