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"I do think it would probably help everybody's mental health if we stopped treating not getting a tenure track position as failure".
For some noble purposes, like getting a tenure.
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It is widely believed that after lawyers have spent more than eight or nine years practicing, their chances of getting a tenure-track job at law school start to dwindle.
"Getting a tenure-track position while following a spouse is often challenging".
It is not easy getting a tenure-track job anywhere in academe.
I realized shortly before my wife graduated that I was more afraid of getting a tenure-track job than I was of not getting one.
Doing a postdoc is related to a higher probability of getting a tenure-track job, but the size of the advantage varies greatly from field to field.
Other factors including the odds of getting a tenure-track job factor into such career decisions, Collett tells Science Careers, so she attempted to account for these factors in her interviews.
The faculty members we interviewed--from institutions large and small--revealed some substantial variations in how the recruitment process works and in which factors most affect applicants' chances of getting a tenure-track offer.
In Germany, where she completed her Ph.D., "I could maybe have gotten a five year contract as a junior professor, but there are few possibilities of getting a tenure-track position," she says.
The likelihood that Congress will do anything to improve a situation that threatens not only the wellbeing of so many hard-working academics but the integrity of college teaching across America is probably no greater than that of an adjunct getting a tenure-track offer at a research university.
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