tenured faculty
Job-secure academics
Tenured faculty are professors and other academic staff who have achieved tenure—permanent employment status that protects them from dismissal without extraordinary cause.
The designation distinguishes them from adjuncts, lecturers, and tenure-track professors still working toward that security: The tenured faculty voted against the curriculum change.
Tenure theoretically safeguards academic freedom, allowing scholars to pursue controversial research without fear of losing their jobs.
- professorSenior university teacher
- full professorHighest academic rank
- academiaHigher education community
- sabbaticalExtended leave from work
- publishIssue for distribution
department · department chair · university · lecture · research · scholarly · academic · dissertation · ivory tower · campus · classroom · syllabus · office hours · course load · provost · dean · emeritus · adjunct
- academiaprofessors, universities, graduation cap, biology department, professor
- Facultyprofessor, assistant professor, associate professor, full professor, adjunct
- intelligentsiaintellectuals, professors, intelligentsia, academics, philosophers
tenured facultyadjunct faculty
Non-permanent university instructor
adjunct professors · adjuncts · part-time faculty · lecturers · visiting professors
tenured facultyadjuncts
Supplementary additions or elements
adjunct professors · teaching assistants · lecturers · instructors · postdocs
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