This included removing guaranteed tenure and issuing the heads and deputy heads of departments with performance agreements, on pain of being removed if they failed to make the grade.
Tenants are currently guaranteed tenure for life.
Can the mirage of combining ultimate religious and political powers guarantee tenure and prevent worldly political errors and misdeeds?
Sure, the system of guaranteed tenure allows teachers to get away with doing a lousy job in the classroom, while still being guaranteed a paycheck.
The controversial deal gives Mr. Wang oversight of the bulk of Smile Train's roughly $160 million in assets, and it guarantees lifetime tenure at the new organization to the Magees.
"The nation will be facing a chaotic situation and pay a high social cost if the president is forced to step down now while the Constitution guarantees his tenure until 2004".
Nowhere is this more on display than in Wisconsin, where Governor Scott Walker and the Wisconsin legislature have joined forces to gut statutory guarantees of tenure and shared governance – the twin pillars protecting academic freedom and the integrity of scientific research – in the University of Wisconsin system.
The freedom guaranteed by tenure is precious.
The administration should not ask federal judges, who are guaranteed lifetime tenure by the Constitution, to predict when they intend to step down.
"I am perfectly aware that H.P. has never guaranteed absolute tenure status to its employees," Mr. Packard wrote, "but I also know that Bill and Dave never developed a premeditated business strategy that treated H.P. employees as expendable".
BROOKLYN NOIR Edited by Tim McLoughlin Akashic Books ($15.95, paperback) From "The Book Signing" by Pete Hamill The first question came from a bearded man in his 40's, the type who wrote nasty book reviews that guaranteed him tenure.
