Timeline for University's motivation for having tenure-track positions
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| Aug 4 at 22:45 | comment | added | Brian Borchers | In short, it's not worthwhile, but many new PhDs hang on desperately in contingent positions while trying to get hired into one of the few remaining tenure-track faculty positions. | |
| Aug 4 at 22:26 | comment | added | user104446 | @Brian Borchers So if not tenure, what sort of employment contract is now being offered in US universities to those new staff who achieve the teaching, departmental management and research goals set out for them by year 5-7? Whatever the deal is, it still has to be worth the effort to work as hard as they need to and still turn down offers from other universities . . . maybe even some offers of tenure-track positions. | |
| Apr 13, 2019 at 14:06 | comment | added | JeffE | I interpret this as "At some universities, local employment laws and/or university policies require giving tenure to anyone who works for the university for 7 years." | |
| Apr 13, 2019 at 1:26 | comment | added | Brian Borchers | The tenure system is something that was created and maintained by universities and their faculty. I don’t think that the rest of society has had much to say about it, although some politicians have certainly argued that it should be abolished. | |
| Apr 13, 2019 at 1:04 | comment | added | bye_bye_harvard | thank you for your answer. So the answer is essentially "There is pressure from the society to give tenure to people who have worked for the department for 7 years." Do I understand correctly? | |
| Apr 13, 2019 at 0:59 | history | answered | Brian Borchers | CC BY-SA 4.0 |