These shortages dogged the Academy for ten years, and that is when the majority of universities started offering formal tenure as a side benefit.

Art schools, many of which don't offer tenure, might have trouble attracting strong general education teachers but don't pass off instruction on graduate students.

By coincidence, law school faculty members are scheduled to vote Friday on offering tenure to four candidates.

What is under consideration is nothing more than giving schools the option of not offering tenure.

But you exaggerate when you say they were set to offer me tenure.

As a result, he was not offered tenure and elected to leave the university for the world of business.

If I were offered tenure I would have to assess my options.

It was a college that gave no grades, had no departments, and didn't offer tenure to faculty.

Public servants are a lazy lot, so police their activities more stringently-and don't offer them tenure for life.

At retirement they were offered tenure of stewardship of royal forests at the king's choosing.