My husband was well into (but had not finished) his Ph.D. and was given a tenure-track position, with the promise of a leave to complete his thesis work.
In January 1883 Congress passed and Arthur signed the Pendleton Civil Service Act, which established the Civil Service Commission and provided that appointments to certain categories of offices should be made on the basis of examinations and the appointees given an indefinite tenure in their positions.
Speaking ahead of a formal announcement at Cressingham Gardens housing estate in Lambeth, south London - which Ms Bennett did not attend because of losing her voice - she told BBC Breakfast she wanted people who rent privately to be given a five-year tenure, with rent rises not exceeding the rate of inflation.
For example, Amica and Ameriprise Group, give policyholders a tenure discount.
Each video included the same PowerPoint slide show accompanied by a lecture given by a tenure-track full-time professor who has taught this class frequently.
If a university decides it made a mistake giving a philosophy professor tenure (a status that guarantees the professor that, absent exigent circumstances, he or she cannot be fired) the university that wants to rid itself of the professor rarely offers him or her millions of dollars to relinquish the privileges given the professor when tenure was awarded.
Likewise, Ed Caliguri, a research associate at Tufts Medical School, gave up a tenure-track position at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut when his wife, a physician, was offered a position in Boston.
Rather, he said, "I simply came to the overwhelming conclusion that Judge White should not be given lifetime tenure as a U.S. district-court judge".
This demeanor had sometimes given his tenure the air of a five-month-long ted talk.
Ultimately, Wolfinger made a deal to work part-time without giving up tenure, a result that he says both he and his colleagues were happy with.
I wanted to hear just a little more about his own youthful collecting mania (cheese labels?) and my favourite of many throwaway Jones lines, involving the life cycle of the sea squirt that "after an active life, settles on the sea floor and, like a professor given tenure, absorbs its brain".
