For instance, many colleges have steadily increased their use of contingent, or non-tenure track, faculty.
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We've grown our faculty from 53 tenure track faculty in 2006 to 79 tenure track faculty.
In 1995 Medford left the tenure track at Emory in order to run the new company full time.
As the story unfolds, Jane struggles with the demands of being on both the mommy track and the tenure track, as well as with the sense that her seemingly emancipated life has some queasy similarities to Masha's wifely serfdom.
We went from four tenure-track information-technology management faculty when I arrived in 2006, to 10.
For tenure-track professors, there is some pressure to publish books and articles, but deadlines are few.
In practice this means overcrowded classes and adjunct teachers instead of tenure-track professors.
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It occurred to me, just then, that Canaris may have made room for me, that movement at one end of the tenure-track line would create an opening at the other end.
Universities are replacing tenure-track professors with non-tenured staff.
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In the midst of my demanding job as a tenure-track professor, I became pregnant naturally, but then had to take medical leave for a rare pregnancy complication, which ended in the stillbirth of twin daughters.
The X-Man notes that half of all Americans who enter college never finish, that almost sixty per cent of students who enroll in two-year colleges need developmental (that is, remedial) courses, and that less than thirty per cent of faculty in American colleges are tenure-track.
High-achieving nerds who spend a lifetime at the top of their classes discover that even if you earn that PhD, even if you earn it from an elite school, you might still end up fighting for professional scraps a non-tenure-track gig teaching third-tier students at a fourth-tier college in a cultural Siberia like Alabama or Arkansas.
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It is surely better to rethink the career structure of your employees than to see it wither (the proportion of professors at four-year universities who are on track to win tenure fell from 50% in 1997 to 39% ten years later).
Reilly boasted a strong development track record during his three-year tenure, which includes both critically acclaimed newcomers (30 Rock and Friday Night Lights) and established ratings successes (Deal or No Deal and The Office).
But I thought her two-track option was a really good idea, allowing young teachers to enter the system without tenure but with a much better salary upfront.
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