Sentence examples for given tenure from inspiring English sources

Derrick Bell, renowned and admired for having left a tenured position at the Harvard Law School in 1990 because it had never given tenure to a black woman (it just did so with Lani Guinier), is one of its elder statesmen.

Why should someone be given tenure just because he went to a certain school?

Small and curly-haired, he looks like Harpo Marx released from his vow of silence and given tenure.

Mr. Levy did not propose eliminating tenure, but he did suggest that teachers have been given tenure cavalierly.

After four years, if it looks like they can function in the academic world, they're given tenure".

In seven years, Klein has increased the percentage of third-year teachers not given tenure from three to six per cent.

The Harvard University physics department did not give tenure to a woman until 1992.

Against all logic, we are now engaged in finding ways to give tenure to fewer of those who remain.

He proposed giving tenure to teachers who received strong evaluations and taking it away from those who got low ratings.

He said he would also seek legislation to give tenure trials the same priority as Superior Court cases so that lawyers would not delay hearings because of other obligations.

Principals, who make recommendations on tenure, and supervisors, who make the decisions, were allowed to give tenure only to teachers who were rated effective or better for two consecutive years.