"I don't know of a single person who has succeeded" in getting a high-level research grant without a tenure-track or similarly protected position, he says.
"It feels a little strange to give up a job at Duke to come here without a tenure-track job," says Mr. Blackadder.
The goal is to allow the awardees to do their research without the pressure of a tenure clock.
What is needed, he said, is to create new career opportunities on a "professional track" for nonfaculty university researchers who would receive adequate compensation and routes for advancement without the necessity of a tenure-track job.
It's hard enough to get a tenure-track job without any complications; forget about finding two jobs in the same place, for instance, or adding children to the mix.
Bret D. Schundler wants New Jersey voters to envision a parkway without tolls, property tax bills without increases, teachers without tenure and cities without slums.
Ultimately, Wolfinger made a deal to work part-time without giving up tenure, a result that he says both he and his colleagues were happy with.
Most institutions provide only a limited amount of time a professor can work without tenure, meaning there is a great deal of pressure to achieve.
Peter Keating Greenwich, Conn., Nov. 13, 2008 To the Editor: In your article, Kerry Sylvia, an award-winning teacher, says that without tenure she would be vulnerable to arbitrary firing for her outspokenness.
He was appointed the laboratory's director in 1961, when he was only 34, an assistant professor without tenure and not yet a United States citizen.
I will next present two tests to provide evidence that the cross-sectional variation in the treatment and control groups would not have changed in an environment without tenure.
