Perhaps you know you want to go the tenure-track route but are unsure whether you will be able to succeed.
Faculty members may participate in the VP Program more than once, but participation thus far has been limited to a maximum of two summer training experiences, with preference given to junior untenured scientists in tenure-track positions or en route to tenure-track positions.
"The Giuliani administration negotiated very hard," he said, "which resulted in several billion dollars in savings and the attainment of what was once thought to be unachievable reforms, such as extending sanitation routes, ending tenure for principals and the establishment of workfare".
will replace it as the prevailing route to qualify for tenure.
There were hundreds of applicants for every tenure-track job, and the postdoc route seemed like a complete sham.
This initial decisive move certainly demonstrates that Strauss's tenure will not be one to take the cautious route that many have tipped.
"Everyone knows, 'Don't go to Steve's lab unless you're crazy,' " he says, because his lab isn't a direct route to science's usual currency: publications, tenure, and funding.
Certainly, academia is no longer a "safe route," based on time to tenured position, availability of research funding, and in general, a lack of security (until tenure).
As such Europe's consolation prize competition has started to look little more than a respectfully endured formality en route to the real endgame of Stramaccioni's tenure.
The political minefield is that the route to do that is to make changes to tenure – making a link that doesn't currently exist between how long you keep a tenancy and how long you need it.
