Sentence examples for tenured appointments from inspiring English sources

This freedom, which encourages scholars and teachers to traffic in unpopular truths, rests in part on the private property of tenured appointments.

At Harvard, Neil Rudenstine created a private time-distribution formula to keep his priorities straight: he told himself he would devote no less than half his time to the intellectual life of the institution — academic planning, faculty searches, tenured appointments — and no more than a third to fund-raising.

The discontented liberal intellectuals, on the other hand, reside exclusively in academic institutions with tenured appointments.

In 2004, Ramadan was given a tenured appointment at the University of Notre Dame.

"A lot of our faculty, particularly in the health field, have clinical appointments and are engaged in a subset of duties of a tenured appointment," he says.

Lynch believes her training in research makes her a better teacher and, although she still feels that her present appointment is not "as prestigious" as a tenured appointment would be, not having to run a research lab gives her the advantage of more personal time.

"Institutions are very concerned about the long-term costs of a tenured appointment and the need in an increasingly volatile environment to maintain flexibility," says Jack H. Schuster, who, along with two other academics, has written about the phenomenon in The New Academic Generation: A Profession in Transformation, published last month by the Johns Hopkins University Press.

Instead, the Senate should leave those rules in place and add a requirement that 60 votes are needed for life-tenured appointments to the federal courts.

The increase in full-time but non-tenured appointments is not nearly as pronounced, but it is expected to continue for some time.

If so, he would retain authority and obligation to also nominate someone (the recess appointee or another person) for a life-tenured appointment.

As a political matter, there are ramifications for nominations to the Supreme Court, and the core elements of a nominee's biography, like his or her family life, are inescapable when the nation focuses on such a high-profile life-tenured appointment.