Sentence examples for was tenured from inspiring English sources
noun
A status of possessing a thing or an office; an incumbency.
He was tenured in 2006 and promoted to full professor in 2009.
I joined the University of Nevada as Assistant Professor in 1990 and was tenured to Associate Professor in 1995.
He joined the MIT faculty in 1988, was tenured in 1995, and promoted to full professor in 2000.
After working two years there, he joined the Civil Engineering Department of the University of Louisiana in Lafayette as Associate Professor and was promoted to Professor in 1970 and was tenured in 1972.
One professor, a well-known historian of Arabic and Islamic science named George Saliba, was tenured, but the other, Joseph Massad, a young assistant professor of modern Arab politics, was not.
He was the youngest professor on the faculty at Harvard Law School (tenured or untenured) both when he joined the faculty in 2008 (at age 29) and when he was tenured as a full professor in 2013 (at age 34).
In 2009, only 24.4 percent of American faculty members were tenured or tenure-track.
Once they are tenured, it is nearly impossible to dislodge them.
At some departments the proportion of faculty who are tenured is startlingly low.
Of course, not all of those 99 out of 100 science Ph.D.s are tenured professors.
Penn is tenured, according to MLive.
