How to Use tenure-track in a Sentence

tenure-track

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  • Mase started her fellowship with the hope of becoming a tenure-track professor.
    — Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 9 Apr. 2024
  • The number of part-timers has been more than double the number of tenure or tenure-track faculty for at least the last 25 years.
    — Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 24 June 2026
  • This has been used to support tenure-track appointments focused on teaching, but its logic extends further.
    — WIRED, 8 Aug. 2023
  • And the time a friend of mine declined a tenure-track position at Grinnell College because the state was so darn white.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2023
  • When the novel begins, Ann is living with her tenure-track professor boyfriend in Michigan.
    — Rhoda Feng, Washington Post, 4 July 2023
  • The course must be taught by regular, tenure-track, university faculty.
    — Ray Ravaglia, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
  • But such a prestigious job doesn’t often appear so suddenly for an academic who has not yet published a book or had a tenure-track job elsewhere.
    — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Less than a quarter of life and health sciences PhD graduates land a tenure or tenure-track position.
    — Jacqueline Munis, Fortune, 17 June 2026
  • The unlucky group included four teaching faculty and two tenure-track faculty.
    — Oliver Whang, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2023
  • To compete for increasingly rare tenure-track jobs, graduate students and postdocs have no choice but to learn to suppress their emotions and get the work done.
    — Celia Ford, Vox, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Publication led to a tenure-track job teaching creative writing at Fresno State.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Kim has also hired 26 full-time, tenure-track faculty and increased full-time classified positions.
    — Lou Ponsi, Oc Register, 12 Jan. 2026
  • The parents had grown up in Canada but lived in multiple states while the mother did a PhD and secured a tenure-track teaching job.
    — Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 16 Dec. 2024
  • But many universities already implement annual reviews of both tenure-track and tenured faculty.
    — Adia Harvey Wingfield, Forbes.com, 3 July 2025
  • Employing tenure-track professors costs more than contingent faculty.
    — Debbie Truong, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
  • The union, as approved by the vote, would also include non-tenure-track faculty at all USC schools aside from the Keck School of Medicine.
    — Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2026
  • Out of the total, 1,335 faculty members were identifiable as tenure-track professors.
    — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 2 Jan. 2026
  • Still, the dean acknowledged broader salary equity concerns, particularly between tenure-track and non-tenure-track faculty.
    — Garrett Shanley, Miami Herald, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Adjunct and other non-tenure-track faculty won a vote at USC to unionize with United Auto Workers.
    — Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2026
  • The university’s tenure-track English faculty is seventy-one strong—including eleven Shakespeare scholars, most of them of color.
    — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The growth will lead the university to increase its tenure and tenure-track faculty by over 100 over the next two years – far more than a university its size would typically hire in such a short period of time.
    — Joy Donovan, Dallas News, 11 May 2023
  • In 2022, Sachanowicz voted with a 5-3 board majority to support a plan for faculty contracting that did not include a tenure-track option.
    — Scott Huddleston, San Antonio Express-News, 2 May 2026
  • With shows lined up, a tenure-track teaching offer from Clarion University in western Pennsylvania in hand and her future seemingly decided, life took a dramatic turn.
    — Paul Nicolaus, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Last week, hundreds of non-tenure-track faculty at Loyola University Chicago voted to authorize a one-day strike this Friday after a year of negotiations.
    — Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune, 30 Apr. 2026
  • After a signing ceremony in June and public criticism of McElroy’s work to diversify newsrooms, the university changed the offer from tenure-track to a five-year contract and later to a one-year contract.
    — Marcela Rodrigues, Dallas News, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Noting that the university’s tenure-track, non-clinical faculty had grown by more than 20% in the last 10 years, Baicker said that the goal was to hold the current overall faculty size stable for now, which would require reducing the hiring rate of by about 30%.
    — Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Faculty in particular are allergic to working in enterprises, both pro-social and anti-social; earning the PhD required for tenure-track positions renders nonprofit or private sector experience impractical at best.
    — Ryan Craig, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
  • These programs typically employ temporary instructors — sometimes adjuncts or graduate students — and at other times, simply individuals from the extended community, rather than the university’s regular, tenure-track faculty.
    — Ray Ravaglia, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
  • But McElroy’s job offer was later changed from a tenure-track position to a one-year contract after the university received criticism on McElroy’s work related to diversity and equity issues, according to university officials.
    — Marcela Rodrigues, Dallas News, 21 July 2023
  • Unions representing graduate workers, adjuncts and non-tenure-track instructors have organized in recent years at several campuses, including New York University, Columbia and Harvard.
    — Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2026

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