How to Use untenured in a Sentence
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Known as Kat-Con to her many fans and detractors in the small and incestuous circle of untenured Latino political scientists.
—Héctor Tobar, Slate Magazine, 24 Jan. 2017
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Despite their efforts to adapt, for untenured researchers and graduate students, delays can be career breaking.
—Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 20 July 2021
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Classes were canceled because nearly 90% of the faculty is made up of untenured adjunct professors and lecturers.
—BostonGlobe.com, 11 Dec. 2022
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It has also been skewered by some critics for using mostly untenured faculty for its online programs and hyping achievements.
—Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2022
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Those institutions have adopted some of the tactics of their for-profit counterparts including TV ads, call centers that handle student inquiries and armies of untenured teachers.
—Douglas Belkin, WSJ, 19 Dec. 2017
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The historians were invited because they were tried and trusted (and tenured; Milov is an untenured associate professor at the University of Virginia).
—Soraya Roberts, Longreads, 19 July 2019
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Some faculty, while supportive of helping more students succeed, are worried that untenured and part-time professors in particular could be pushed by their departments to raise grades.
—Larry Gordon Edsource, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2021
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In one case, an untenured conservative professor was fired after publishing more (and more consequential) scholarship than even some of the tenured professors who evaluated him.
—David French, National Review, 5 July 2017
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After years of working essentially as a volunteer, Noether finally became an untenured associate math professor in 1922 at Göttingen, where she was allotted a modest salary.
—Steve Nadis, Discover Magazine, 16 May 2017
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Some in the discipline, particularly graduate students and untenured faculty members, worry that administrators at small colleges and public universities will simply use the changes as an excuse to cut programs.
—New York Times, 2 Feb. 2021
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But younger, untenured scholars, whose work touches on potentially controversial themes, will undoubtedly find this incident intimidating.
—Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 29 May 2021
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