Sentence examples for tenure line from inspiring English sources

"I'm certain I wouldn't have gotten a tenure line if I hadn't had a Ph.D. that was recognizable by the department".

"We don't want to commit tenure lines until we sort out what direction the school is headed in," the provost says.

These days, budget-conscious universities often hire nontrack employees rather than tenure-track faculty to fill openings, making VanderPlas's hoped-for new tenure lines unlikely to appear any time soon.

After working in minor visiting positions and fellowships, I got a tenure-line position at a not-so-stellar private university.

"These appointments support the privileges of tenure-line faculty," acknowledges Barbara Melosh, co-chair of the English department at George Mason".But are we really signing our own death warrants here?" -- ROBIN WILSON.

GTA studies are also difficult to compare, because most literature has focused on instructors who are tenure-line or ranked faculty members and few compare them directly with GTAs (Bos et al., 1980).

Although in some contexts lecturers may be considered contingent instructors, at this university they are highly qualified (PhD-level), full-time, and permanent (some have worked for more than 10 yr at the university) faculty members most likely indistinguishable from a tenure-line faculty member to the majority of undergraduates.

Each of the selected courses had a lecture (ranging in size from 32 students to 225 students) and a laboratory (maximum of 25 students per section) component; the laboratories were all taught by GTAs, who typically taught two or three laboratory sections per semester, and the lecture classes were all taught by PhD-level faculty members (tenure-line [ n = 3] or lecturers [ n = 3]).

Women are more likely than men to be working on a non-tenure-track line (16% of women versus 9% of men) or to not have tenure available to them (25% of women versus 16% of men).

However, I already have a tenure-track job lined up at the University of Victoria in Canada, allowing me to satisfy my ?wanderlust?

The top-ranked department, at Harvard University, "successfully placed 239 political scientists at 75 institutions," and the top four—Harvard University, Princeton University, Stanford University, and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor have together placed 616 professors, which accounts for "roughly twenty percent of the total tenure-track lines in the discipline at research-intensive programs".