This is especially true given that most colleges and universities recognize that short-term appointments are easier and more flexible than accommodations involving tenure-track positions.
While one of those units involved tenured and tenure-track professors, the rest were constituted of contingent faculty — adjuncts, lecturers and graduate assistants who teach college classes.
Mr. Scrushy was acquitted of all charges in the $2.7 billion fraud at HealthSouth, but he faces a possible federal prison sentence after being convicted in a separate state bribery scheme involving his tenure at HealthSouth.
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.
Varoufakis will probably go onto a promising career that will involve books, tenure and a lucrative speaking tour.
Representatives of both the administration and faculty governance, including those involved in tenure and promotion decisions, should move to allay these fears.
They also claim the university has become too beholden to wealthy donors who they say are informally dictating decisions involving hiring and tenure.
A19 Debate Over Chirac Immunity France's National Assembly debated a bill that would strip President Jacques Chirac of his immunity from prosecution and lay him open to charges of corruption involving his long tenure as mayor of Paris.
Given this history -- and an equally interesting history involving Dick Cheney's tenure as C.E.O. of Halliburton -- you could say that this administration is uniquely well qualified to chase after corporate evildoers.
The John Doe investigation involving Walker's tenure as County Executive is being prosecuted by the Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm before Judge Neal Nettesheim of Waukesha.
His eight-year tenure was somewhat stormy because there were bitter disputes over tenure decisions involving professors who advocated a legal analysis known as critical legal studies, which asserted that law was not neutral, as had long been taught at establishment institutions like Harvard.
