tenure-track
See also: tenuretrack and tenure track
English
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edittenure-track (not comparable)
- (education, of a professorship or other academic job) Possessing contractually guaranteed terms of employment specifying that, after a period of time, the employed person will be considered for tenure status, which typically confers enhanced job security and sometimes other benefits.
- 2005 March 21, Hanna Kite, “Japan Lags Behind”, in Time:
- [T]he hierarchical structure of Japanese academic-research teams often denies women precious tenure-track positions.
- 2009 January 22, Andrew Oswald, “Competition is the key to the best research”, in The Independent, UK:
- It would be better to forget RAE exercises and instead have a large number of independent universities with proper tenure-track positions and with high standards enforced.
References
edit- “tenure-track”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.