In 2003, among Doctorate degree holders who received their degree four to six years previously, only 19.8percentt were in tenure-track or tenured positions at four-year institutions of higher education.
Interestingly, although 72.7% were in tenured or tenure-track positions, most did not have tenure before adopting SFES roles, suggesting that such roles are not, by themselves, an impediment to achieving tenure.
Encompassed in the broader term is the notion that researchers need not be in tenure or even self-sustaining to be independent.
And minority women with doctorates are less likely than white women, or men of any racial or ethnic group, to be in tenure positions.
And being less mobile may prove detrimental, since faculty who are more mobile command higher salaries, are more likely to be in tenure-track positions, and hold higher academic rank than other faculty.
Alex Gann, dean of the Watson School, says that students do not receive a PhD without evidence of substantial research achievement, and that they have no difficulty competing for postdoc positions in excellent labs: for example, of the 52 PhD students who graduated between 1999 and 2008, 11 are in tenure-track positions.
You could say that Mr. Siena is in a tenure-track position, on his way to filling the gallery's venerated Agnes Martin slot.
Wang says he isn't worrying about the future yet; he's just focusing on the science, and not being in a tenure-track position makes that easier.
The Peanuts were in first place throughout his tenure.
What with the secrecy of tenure committees, collegiality is sufficiently pliant as a pretext for tenure denial that in 1999 the Association of University Professors flatly recommended that it not be weighed in tenure decisions at all.
The truth is, in my short tenure as a masculinity expert, intimate conversations about being a man have been rare.
