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Tenure - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tenure commonly refers to life tenure in a job and specifically to a senior academic's contractual right not to have their position terminated without just cause. Under the tenure systems adopted a...
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Directed by Mike Million. With Luke Wilson, Gretchen Mol, David Koechner. ... Tenure (2009) More at IMDbPro » ... Contact: View company contact information for Tenure on IMDbPro.
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Tenure - Definition of Tenure at Dictionary.com a free online dictionary with pronunciation, synonyms, and translation of Tenure. Word of the Day and Crossword Puzzles. ... the holding or possessing of anything: the tenure of an office.
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1. appointment or period of appointment: the occupation of an official position, or the length of time that an official position is occupied ( formal ) during her tenure as president;
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The tenure system was created to protect the academic freedom of a school's, university's, or college's faculty members. Tenured faculty members have no end date to their employment and cannot be dismissed for reasons unrelated to performance.
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Tenure is important. It is something we work very hard to get, and, when we get it, it is something we spend a lot of time awarding or denying. But once someone "has" tenure, what does it mean? What entitlements and responsibilities does a tenured faculty member at Michigan have?
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Provides full-text access to the ERIC Digest of this name. ... Is tenure an outmoded concept that stands in the way of sound educational policy? Or is tenure an essential means of protecting teachers from arbitrary and capricious actions on the part of administrators and school boards?
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Tenure is defined in the AAUP’s "1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure (With 1970 Interpretive Comments)" as follows: "After the expiration of a probationary period, teachers or investigators would have permanent or continuous tenure, and their service should be terminated only for adequate...
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