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- verb Present participle of
tenure .
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Examples
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He recently said that NCLB has been too narrowly focused on standardized testing, yet keeps pushing for states to use student test scores as a “significant factor” in evaluating, tenuring, firing and paying teachers.
Poll on NCLB: Americans want overhaul (but does Congress?) Valerie Strauss 2011
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Mr. Yglesias has to make up his mind, because I am pretty sure that the Obama program includes the continued practice of tenuring bad teachers, for their poverty sake, you know.
Matthew Yglesias » Kristof Gets Education Mostly Right, Slights Importance of Poverty 2009
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Harvard, for example, is legendary for very rarely tenuring their own junior faculty at all.
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For example, just to name a few fights: he came out against affirmative action, slammed diversity, made comments about women & science, slammed the entire social sciences except econ, of course, said the Law School had weak tenuring standards and slammed his deans on numerous occasions.
"Summers!" "Superintendant Chalmers!", Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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But welcome to my world, denizens of the R-1 -- Zenith is one of the places from which senior women and faculty of color in particular tend to get cherry picked as research universities try to bolster their miserable performance at hiring, tenuring and promoting.
Newsflash: Ned Blackhawk to Join Yale Faculty Tenured Radical 2009
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Theory was weak there, but improved tremendously with a couple of hires and a tenuring.
Archive 2008-01-01 Bardiac 2008
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Theory was weak there, but improved tremendously with a couple of hires and a tenuring.
Just how much did you know? Bardiac 2008
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Our basic philosophy: colleagiality: We look forward to tenuring every person we hire, and it's pretty rare that we fail.
Archive 2007-09-01 Bardiac 2007
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Our basic philosophy: colleagiality: We look forward to tenuring every person we hire, and it's pretty rare that we fail.
Hiring a Colleague: The Other Side of the Job Market Bardiac 2007
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I tend to think yes — universities should have the option of tenuring those whom they wish on the grounds that they wish — but am open to persuasion.
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