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Defenders of tenure, like Ellen Schrecker and Aeon J. Skoble, generally acknowledge flaws in how tenure approvals are currently run and problems in how tenured professors might use their time, security, and power; however, as Skoble puts it, the "downsides are either not as bad as claimed, or [are] costs outweighed by the benefits"—and he ...
United States Department of Education statistics put the combined tenured/tenure-track rate at 56% for 1975, 46.8% for 1989, and 31.9% for 2005. That is to say, by the year 2005, 68.1% of US college teachers were neither tenured nor eligible for tenure; a full 48% of teachers that year were part-time employees.
Permanent full-time faculty positions that are often non-tenure-track can include: Lecturer , Instructor , Teaching Professor (usually non-tenure-track positions which can nevertheless be full-time and permanent, with duties including teaching and service but not research; sometimes these categories entail their own respective ranking hierarchies)
Wesleyan’s AAUP chapter last winter called for the school to extend tenure protections to all adjunct faculty who work full-time hours but do not have a track to the job protection that tenured ...
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — Faculty members of a North Carolina university want an explanation for the school's reported decision to back away from offering a tenured teaching position to ...
With former teacher Gov. Tim Walz rounding out the Democratic ticket, education could become a talking point in this election. Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump has laid out his ...
Surveying tenure periods in other U.S. states, the court found that as of the trial (January 27 to March 27, 2014) [22] 4 states had no tenure system at all, 9 states had tenure periods of four to five years, 32 had a three-year period, and 5 (including California) had a period of two years or less.
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