tenure track
Academic job ladder
Tenure track describes academic positions that can lead to tenure—permanent employment with strong job protections.
A tenure-track professor typically spends five to seven years being evaluated before either receiving tenure or being let go.
The term distinguishes these positions from adjunct or visiting roles that offer no path to permanent status: She landed a tenure-track job at a research university.
- probationaryConditional on good performance
- publish or perishAcademic career dictum
- facultyInherent power or ability
- universityHigher education institution
- promotionRank increase or publicity
academia · academic freedom · job security · fulltime · research · adjunct faculty · research position · assistant professor · career advancement · academic career · hiring committee · associate professor · appointment · time-bound · teaching · hire · education · sabbatical
- academiaprofessors, universities, graduation cap, biology department, professor
- academicsprofessor, course, university professors, math, professors
- college termsuniversity, community college, fall semester, spring semester, liberal arts college
- higher educationuniversity, college, degree, diploma, graduate school
- job securityjob security, job protection, job retention, permanent position, job stability
- school staffteacher, teachers, principal, professor, librarian
tenure trackadjunct
Subordinate addition to something
visiting professor · temporary appointment · contingent · part-time faculty · lecturer
tenure trackadjunct
Subordinate addition to something
contingent · temporary · visiting · term-limited · at-will