tenure-track
adjective
ten·ure-track
ˈten-yər-ˌtrak 
also -ˌyu̇r-
: relating to or being a teaching position that may lead to a grant of tenure
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After graduation in 1985, Troost landed a tenure-track job at Washington & Jefferson College, a small liberal-arts college near Pittsburgh.
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Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2024
Grants are too small, too short, and too restrictive
Principal investigators — often tenure-track university professors — doing academic research in the US are responsible not only for running their own lab, but also for funding it.
—Celia Ford, Vox, 12 Sep. 2024
For Wardle, who left Brown in late June for a tenure-track professor post at Cornell University, the constant monitoring and backlash spurred her decision to shift from responding tomisinformation to a proactive topic: how to improve information systems like media.
—Naomi Nix, Washington Post, 24 July 2024
So, how did Jones go from making history as the first Black tenure-track musician in the Kansas City Symphony’s history in September 2020 to losing his job less than three years later, in January 2023?
—Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 6 June 2024
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Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2024
Grants are too small, too short, and too restrictive
Principal investigators — often tenure-track university professors — doing academic research in the US are responsible not only for running their own lab, but also for funding it.
—Celia Ford, Vox, 12 Sep. 2024
For Wardle, who left Brown in late June for a tenure-track professor post at Cornell University, the constant monitoring and backlash spurred her decision to shift from responding tomisinformation to a proactive topic: how to improve information systems like media.
—Naomi Nix, Washington Post, 24 July 2024
So, how did Jones go from making history as the first Black tenure-track musician in the Kansas City Symphony’s history in September 2020 to losing his job less than three years later, in January 2023?
—Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 6 June 2024
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“Tenure-track.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tenure-track. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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