Most new tenure-track positions are created when older professors retire.
"What this says here is, 'we are going to start a new tenure,' " Mr. Capellas said to reporters.
The coverage, already shrunken, has focused on the most obvious and routine elements of Mr. Bush's new tenure.
After attempting to remove Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, in violation of the new Tenure of Office Act, Johnson had been impeached by the House of Representatives in 1868.
Professors volunteer, and although evaluations are not used by the administration unless the professor wants them to, Haverford and Bryn Mawr recommend that all new tenure-track professors participate.
He went 681-635 in his first stint before guiding the team to losses in the first two games of his new tenure.
Speaking to reporters after the hearing, Mr. Capellas said: "What this says here is we are going to start a new tenure.
From the late 1970's up until last year, when Wesleyan hired two new tenure-track film professors, Mrs. Basinger occupied the demanding position of being the only full-time faculty member in the discipline.
Also, she said, the new tenure evaluations were dividing teachers and lowering morale, with some newer teachers feeling punished for the smattering of more experienced ones they saw as using tenure as a "safety net," but putting forth less effort in the profession".The bigger picture is that they are trying to end tenure," the teacher said.
Shirley Tilghman, who was installed as Princeton's president in May and baptized by fire during the week of Sept. 11 -- which also was the first week of classes in her new tenure -- put it this way: "What all of us are very conscious of since Sept. 11 is the importance of the school of public policy.
