How to Use tenure-track in a Sentence

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• 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
• Are the instructors tenured or tenure-track professors at the college?
  — Chris Quintana, USA Today, 1 June 2023
• When the novel begins, Ann is living with her tenure-track professor boyfriend in Michigan.
  — Rhoda Feng, Washington Post, 4 July 2023
• Nearly everyone looking for a tenure-track job found one.
  — Evan Kindley, The New York Review of Books, 16 Feb. 2023
• By the end of the 1970s the spike in enrollments ended, yet American graduate schools continued producing new Ph.D.s, even as the number of tenure-track jobs declined.
  — Evan Kindley, The New York Review of Books, 16 Feb. 2023
• This has been used to support tenure-track appointments focused on teaching, but its logic extends further.
  — WIRED, 8 Aug. 2023
• Publication led to a tenure-track job teaching creative writing at Fresno State.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
• 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
• The unlucky group included four teaching faculty and two tenure-track faculty.
  — Oliver Whang, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Employing tenure-track professors costs more than contingent faculty.
  — Debbie Truong, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• 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

Last Updated: 3 Aug 2024