tenured
Speech parts
1. tenured - Adjective
2. tenured - Verb
3. tenured - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
appointed for life and not subject to dismissal except for a grave crime
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an irremovable officer
a tenured professor
According to Professors Malamy and Cochran, tenured professors have either picked up short-term teaching contracts or have left entirely, further demonstrating this new policy’s detraction from Tufts’ vibrant academic life.
About 68% of all full-time faculty are tenured.
B:xv Conversely, Keith Devlin believes that Peirce's work was too far ahead of his time to be appreciated by the academic establishment of the day and that this played a large role in Peirce's inability to obtain a tenured position.
After several years as a tenured professor at UCLA, Jamison was offered a tenured post as Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, perhaps the first time such a post had been offered to a psychologist.