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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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.
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Ray Ravaglia, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
Put another way, the university’s 2009 strategic plan observed that the university had approximately 1,200 tenure-track faculty in 1972.
—Clifford Ando, Chicago Tribune, 9 Mar. 2025
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
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
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Ray Ravaglia, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
Put another way, the university’s 2009 strategic plan observed that the university had approximately 1,200 tenure-track faculty in 1972.
—Clifford Ando, Chicago Tribune, 9 Mar. 2025
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
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
See All Example Sentences for tenure-track
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“Tenure-track.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tenure-track. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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