How to Use tenure-track in a Sentence

tenure-track

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  • Mase started her fellowship with the hope of becoming a tenure-track professor.
    — Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 9 Apr. 2024
  • The number of part-timers has been more than double the number of tenure or tenure-track faculty for at least the last 25 years.
    — Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 24 June 2026
  • This has been used to support tenure-track appointments focused on teaching, but its logic extends further.
    — WIRED, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Right, a tenure-track job is one of the ways writers have traditionally found stability!
    — Literary Hub, 27 July 2026
  • 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
  • When the novel begins, Ann is living with her tenure-track professor boyfriend in Michigan.
    — Rhoda Feng, Washington Post, 4 July 2023
  • The course must be taught by regular, tenure-track, university faculty.
    — Ray Ravaglia, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
  • But such a prestigious job doesn’t often appear so suddenly for an academic who has not yet published a book or had a tenure-track job elsewhere.
    — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Less than a quarter of life and health sciences PhD graduates land a tenure or tenure-track position.
    — Jacqueline Munis, Fortune, 17 June 2026
  • The unlucky group included four teaching faculty and two tenure-track faculty.
    — Oliver Whang, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • Publication led to a tenure-track job teaching creative writing at Fresno State.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Kim has also hired 26 full-time, tenure-track faculty and increased full-time classified positions.
    — Lou Ponsi, Oc Register, 12 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • Job openings for academics in the humanities are likewise in decline, and fewer and fewer of the remaining positions are tenure-track.
    — Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
  • But many universities already implement annual reviews of both tenure-track and tenured faculty.
    — Adia Harvey Wingfield, Forbes.com, 3 July 2025
  • Employing tenure-track professors costs more than contingent faculty.
    — Debbie Truong, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Epstein’s hiring for the role, on an interim, tenure-track basis, has sparked pushback and questions from FIU faculty.
    — Austin Horn, Miami Herald, 24 Aug. 2026
  • The union, as approved by the vote, would also include non-tenure-track faculty at all USC schools aside from the Keck School of Medicine.
    — Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2026
  • Out of the total, 1,335 faculty members were identifiable as tenure-track professors.
    — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 2 Jan. 2026
  • Still, the dean acknowledged broader salary equity concerns, particularly between tenure-track and non-tenure-track faculty.
    — Garrett Shanley, Miami Herald, 25 Feb. 2026
  • In 1970 people with tenure or tenure-track jobs constituted 73% of those teaching at colleges and universities.
    — Paul Osterman, The Conversation, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Adjunct and other non-tenure-track faculty won a vote at USC to unionize with United Auto Workers.
    — Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Non-tenure-track faculty voted in June to join United Faculty-UAW, with about 70% in favor.
    — Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Although hiring of permanent faculty — those with tenure or on tenure-track — has not kept up with enrollment, the university’s total faculty hiring has matched student growth nearly perfectly.
    — Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 6 Oct. 2026
  • In 2022, Sachanowicz voted with a 5-3 board majority to support a plan for faculty contracting that did not include a tenure-track option.
    — Scott Huddleston, San Antonio Express-News, 2 May 2026
  • 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
  • Last week, hundreds of non-tenure-track faculty at Loyola University Chicago voted to authorize a one-day strike this Friday after a year of negotiations.
    — Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune, 30 Apr. 2026

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