It is French-ish, although it's worth remembering that The French was so nicknamed after foreigner Victor Berlement took tenure in 1914.
Suddenly, there's a sense of urgency on their part because they have schedules to adhere to, sabbaticals to take, tenure tours to go on, grants to write.
As pointed out in a February article in Communications of the ACM [Association for Computing Machinery], in 2003, more than twice as many recent Ph.D.s took tenure-track faculty positions as took postdocs.
But if you ask people in any department what it takes to get tenure, they probably can't tell you.
Joshua Pechthalt, president of the California Federation of Teachers, said that increasing the time it takes to get tenure "is not the solution". He said that tying dismissal to teacher's performance evaluations is problematic.
OLD BRIDGE, N.J. — Gov. Chris Christie on Tuesday called for taking away tenure from ineffective teachers, saying that "tenure should be granted and maintained for those who show they know how to teach".
Voters turned down his proposals to curb state spending, redraw California's political map and lengthen the time it takes teachers to get tenure.
Split positions consist of both members of a couple taking one tenure-track position and splitting the salary, teaching, and committee responsibilities.
Upon taking a tenure-track position at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot 3 years ago, she set out to create the first structural mass spectrometry lab in Israel.
PRINCETON, N.J. — One month after Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey used his annual state address to call for an end to tenure for teachers, his administration unveiled a plan on Wednesday that would take away tenure from ineffective teachers but stopped short of eliminating it.
