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- adjective Not having or leading to tenure.
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- adjective Not possessing
tenure .
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Examples
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But by not extending the contracts of nontenured faculty or by phasing out tenured positions over time, universities could seriously cut labor costs.
Time to Make Professors Teach Richard Vedder 2011
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Some nontenured lecturers earn less than $100 for each student they instruct.
Putting a Price on Professors Stephanie Simon 2010
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But by not extending the contracts of nontenured faculty or by phasing out tenured positions over time, universities could seriously cut labor costs.
Time to Make Professors Teach Richard Vedder 2011
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In a comprehensive canvassing of court decisions based on teacher evaluation for compe tency, I found that the defendant districts prevailed in more than a 3-to-1 ratio, and that there was no significant difference between the outcomes for nontenured as compared to tenured teachers.
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Streamlining should include lengthening the probationary period, elevating the standard for moving from nontenured to tenured status, and integrating a growth model of student achievement as a proportional, not primary, piece of the evaluation system.
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About 38 percent of the nation's instructors are now part-timers, a category of nontenured itinerants.
What To Chop 2008
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There are good P&T matters to report: More associate professors are talking about promotion, and we have more models for promotion in our nontenured full time ranks.
Archive 2008-03-01 susan 2008
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Well, Reality Check, what do you call it when younger/nontenured folk insistently direct an older female law professor to act more like their stereotype of an older female law professor?
Pretty please. Ann Althouse 2006
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Ann, how many of your peers move to nontenured positions?
Apocalyptic politics. Ann Althouse 2005
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I will only mention one, from David Riesman, who told of a case at the University of Chicago where a nontenured person who refused to give names was not only not terminated, but was defended in court at university expense.
McCarthyism at Harvard Bellah, Robert N. 2005
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