Especially in disciplines that are experimentally intense, the tenure-track approach has obvious advantages and ensures continuity during a generally very fruitful period around the age of 40.
Compounding that, the scientific enterprise is rife with high expectations and intense competition for promotions, tenure, space, and funding.
All three hypotheses predict male-biased dispersal in polygynous species, because male offspring may be more likely to mate with the care-giving parent (i.e. females often have longer tenure), face more intense local competition for mates, or compete for resources to attract females, respectively.
"Sexual harassment isn't unique to the sciences or academia," she added, "but the story gets more intense in academia because professors have tenure, and some universities think it's impossible to fire someone with tenure".
He called Mr. Mubarak's tenure "30 years of intense darkness — black, black, black, the blackness of a chilly winter night".
Dr. Abu El-Haj's writing on Israeli archaeology aroused intense criticism, but she was recently granted tenure.
During Weiner's tenure LinkedIn has developed an intense, sales-focused culture in which new-account wins are celebrated by name at biweekly all-hands meetings.
But his tenure has also included periods of intense criticism, much of it from players, as Goodell has used the blurry boundaries of the commissioner's powers to shape everything from off-field behavior to on-field tackles.
The horrific faculty meeting massacre at the University of Alabama, Huntsville -- an act of unjustifiable violence perhaps unprecedented in American academe -- nonetheless focused national attention on the intense pressures and sometimes-murky procedures involved in tenure decisions.
Amid intense debate about new education standards, and teacher tenure and pay, the Alliance for Excellent Education has turned the focus to new teachers -– and their tendency to quit.
