Tenure system

John Prausnitz The tenure system encourages precisely the attitude that you mentioned. 

Mark Kramer There is one very peculiar thing about the tenure system in regard to the collaboration issue. We do have five years at the beginning of our careers, or longer in some cases, where collaboration can hurt your chances of obtaining tenure. One has to establish an independent record of excellence and not a collaborative record. I hate to say it, but one does get trained into a mode of independent research in those early years of one s... 

IsnH the tenure system a, problem even today for women The decisive period of time is when you have to establish yourself in your workplace and build your family at the same time. 

The novel state-imposed form of land tenure was far more revolutionary than a door-and-window tax. It established a whole new institutional nexus. However simple and uniform the new tenure system was to an administrator, it flung villagers willy-nilly into a world of title deeds, land offices, fees, assessments, and applications. They faced powerful new specialists in the form of land clerks, surveyors, judges, and lawyers whose rules of procedure and decisions were unfamiliar. 

At most institutions, the tenure system provides new assistant professors a time span of approximately six years in which to demonstrate achievement in teaching, service, practice, and scholarship/research. - After this window of time, the faculty decides whether to grant tenure. The granting of tenure implies a guaranteed position within the university unless there is financial exigency or the faculty member is found guilty of misconduct. 

Formal and informal tenure systems can be held in one data environment. 

Harris, M. (1953). Origin of the land tenure system in the United States. Ames, lA Iowa State College Press. 

In my activist life I have always known when I made an impact by the size of the reaction from the opposition I can t shake the feeling that either I got away with something here, or I have not done nearly enough. Will it all catch up to me Or is it that academic culture, with its arcane tenure system, fosters an over-cautiousness in which we are our own worst censors Knowing what one can get away with, and what one is willing to risk - Student evaluations Respect of one s peers Backlash from a chair or dean Staying at a particular institution Staying in academia - is essential for social justice work. 

What made all this possible In essence the University tenure system which permits risky research. The work described here advocates a non-approximate state viewpoint of chemical bonding and it represents a complete abandonment of the approximate orbital viewpoint which we favored some ten years ago. 

Introduction by some universities, in response to external criticism, of alternatives to the traditional, unchecked tenure system such as more meaningful periodic post-tenure reviews multi-year rolling contracts increased use of non-tenuied part-time faculty and optional parallel non-tenured but higher paying tracks. 

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