The third leg of the tenure stool is service, or evidence that a faculty member is willing to work for the betterment of the university, profession, and public at large.
I am an instructor, which for me means 88percentt of my job is teaching and 12percentt involves service - to my department, college, university, profession and community.
And their legacy was an alternative structure of government agencies (the Federal Reserve Board, the Internal Revenue Service, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Food and Drug Administration), universities, professions, news organizations, foundations, and so on, all of which they regarded as bulwarks against the industrial oligopolies.
For many of these non-university-bound students, their stories indicate that the school's focus on university track professions and subsequent dismissal of plans that deviate from university entrance, often undermines student's (equally worthwhile) dreams and aspirations.
In Iraq, they packed the universities and professions.
No legal barriers exclude women from universities and professions, particularly in the south.
For a long time that story rang true: first in the family to head off to university, a profession, a neat house and a car.
EVEN under Leonid Brezhnev, when would-be émigrés were persecuted and Jews had trouble entering some universities and professions, Communist propaganda had its limits: it was careful not to criticise Jews in general or denigrate Judaism as a faith.
The economists say that, despite the introduction of wealth taxes early in the 20th century, the arrival of mass education and the opening of the universities and professions to a modern meritocracy, social mobility rates have not changed "one iota".
Surviving and thriving in a university or profession may require different skills from getting by in the inner city, and the practical cerebral challenges in both will surely be different again from a life spent foraging in the jungle.
But with social mobility having stalled, that meritocratic argument does not apply to many other high-earning positions - unless scientists manage to locate an "Oxbridge gene" that explains why so many end up in similar universities and professions as their parents.
