Timeline for The position I applied for was advertised as Associate Professor with Tenure, but now they’re saying it’s tenure-track Associate Professor
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| Dec 5, 2017 at 19:05 | comment | added | WernerCD | So... all this talk of "some places can't offer a Tenure position out of the gate" - if that is the case... why is it not advertised as solely tenure track? Why mention "Tenure Track OR Tenure"? "OR" means they can offer it out of the gate and him being offered Tenure Track is a deliberate decision - NOT a limitation by "rules". If it IS a limitation - then that's false advertising. | |
| Dec 5, 2017 at 17:45 | comment | added | Mark Meckes | @vadim123: That's true, and I meant to be referring to institutions that aren't in that situation; I should have been clearer. But since the OP applied to a position that was advertised as tenured... | |
| Dec 5, 2017 at 16:47 | comment | added | vadim123 | @MarkMeckes, I disagree. Some institutions are forbidden from offering anyone a position with tenure, hence the pro forma review. However, in this case it doesn't seem like a pro forma review. | |
| Dec 5, 2017 at 16:25 | comment | added | Mark Meckes | I would further add to this that, in my experience, a job offer with such a pro forma tenure review is usually made when the candidate has not previously held a tenured position, or not previously held one in the US. (And especially if the candidate has no previous teaching experience, for example if they're being hired from an industry position.) But none of those seem to apply here. | |
| Dec 5, 2017 at 16:04 | comment | added | J. Denworth | I did not know about the pro-forma tenure review option. The dean wrote " The tenure-track appointment is for four years. You are eligible to apply for tenure as early as one year after the date of first appointment. However, the normal time to apply is in the penultimate year of the tenure track appointment." The language does not sound like the 'pro-forma' scenario you outlined, or does it? | |
| Dec 5, 2017 at 15:49 | history | answered | vadim123 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |