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.
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.
"The problem is they have spelled out a procedure for taking tenure that is entirely administrative," said Parrish.
They did what it took to get tenure, and they're not personally motivated enough to keep on at that same pace," says Burk Dehority, a now-retired faculty member from the Ohio State University in Wooster, who has remained an active and engaged scholar for 50 years.
But if you ask people in any department what it takes to get tenure, they probably can't tell you.
Keys to success included baseline studies that took indigenous tenure into account, backed up by land agencies with the political will and capacity to demarcate and title the land.
In 2007, he took a tenure-track position at the much smaller Hunter College, part of the City University of New York.
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".
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.
On Saturday, a Kremlin spokesman offered congratulations on Blatter's re-election, which will take his tenure to 21 years if he serves a full four-year term.
I didn't take a tenure extension for having a child.
