Linking the standard for tenure to the effectiveness of the average first - year teacher would remind everyone of the opportunity cost
involved in every tenure decision.
Heastie, however, said that the probationary period would be extended from three years to four years, and teachers» evaluations would be a
factor in tenure decisions.
If you want to work at one of the top - tier PUIs — institutions where research is weighed
heavily in the tenure decision — you're better off staying in the lab.
The horrific faculty meeting massacre at the University of Alabama, Huntsville — an act of unjustifiable violence perhaps unprecedented in American academe — nonetheless focused national attention on the intense pressures and sometimes - murky procedures
involved in tenure decisions.
Allowing new evaluations to be
used in tenure decisions will be «studied» (another term for «no snowball's chance in hell will happen»), while charters ate unlikely to see any additional funds this year.
Although all liberal arts institutions value both teaching and research experience, they weigh their importance differently in hiring and
in the tenure decision.