Timeline for In practice, how secure is a tenured position in the US?
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| Aug 19, 2015 at 16:47 | comment | added | eykanal | @Abdul - There was one professor in my graduate program who was so abysmally horrible that people simply didn't come to class at all. Turns out that, aside from being tenured for decades, he was also the former PhD advisor of the department chair. He wasn't going anywhere. There's politics in academia just like anywhere else. | |
| Aug 19, 2015 at 16:36 | comment | added | Honinbo Shusaku | @eykanal Fortunately, I've never had an ineffective professor, but I guess this answers my wonder of why there are ineffective professors teaching for so long | |
| Aug 19, 2015 at 16:34 | comment | added | eykanal | @Abdul - Practically, and unfortunately, yes. | |
| Aug 19, 2015 at 16:31 | comment | added | Honinbo Shusaku | If you're a bad tenured professor, as in your students learn nothing, and the head of the department gets many constant complains year after year, you're still safe from replacement? | |
| Nov 20, 2014 at 22:39 | comment | added | Joshua | I knew someone who as a student got a tenured professor fired. Sex for grades is not tolerated. | |
| Aug 3, 2014 at 12:10 | comment | added | finitud | What kind of circumstances were behind this "encouragement"? | |
| Mar 8, 2012 at 17:48 | comment | added | JeffE | I know someone who was forcefully encouraged to resign from a tenured position. They stepped down rather than going through the many-months-long process of having their tenure revoked. | |
| Feb 17, 2012 at 9:30 | comment | added | user102 | Thanks for the link to the Science article, it indeed seems that tenure is really considered as for-life position. | |
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| Feb 16, 2012 at 22:02 | history | answered | eykanal | CC BY-SA 3.0 |