Sentences with word «nontenured»

Majority - white schools in Minnesota have half as many nontenured teachers as schools with large numbers of black, Asian, Hispanic or American Indian students, according to the Department of Education.

Sometimes the distinctions among locations will be distinctly and formally drawn: staff vs. professional academics; students vs. both of the above; tenured vs. nontenured faculty; some or all of the above vs. the administration, and so forth.

Maine's school boards are being urged to eliminate seniority clauses from teachers» contracts as the result of a state high - court decision, handed down this summer, that state law does not protect tenured teachers at the expense of nontenured teachers in layoff decisions.

Through the Avenir initiative — a program started in 2001 but the effects of which are only now being felt — INSERM awards 20 grants to tenured early career scientists and 20 to nontenured ones.

The NTA was established in 1995 to foster the professional development of graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, visiting fellows, and other nontenured, nonpermanent scientists training at NIEHS.

What's clear, and unsurprising, is that the majority of layoffs affect nontenured scientists, from technicians and postdocs to nontenure - track faculty.

(It is relatively easy for administrators to dismiss nontenured teachers, without overtly citing their sexual orientation).

The three - member panel moved to throw out the seven trustees early last month after they disregarded the panel's directive to let Superintendent Geraldine Jenkins» contract expire and to lay off more than 100 nontenured employees.

But principals who could not find qualified candidates among that group were allowed, under the policy, to hire nontenured teachers instead.

Most of my Beetle - bum friends were poets, students or nontenured college professors.

Godfrey explained the slide as a decline in cross-disciplinary dialogue and demographic changes: «The research tells us Millennials are not joiners,» was how he teed up «the decline of institutional support for research» and «the transformation of hiring practices» that has left nontenured academics of any generation with little to join.

In their book Off - Track Profs: Nontenured Teachers in Higher Education, John Cross of Bloomfield College and Edie Goldenberg of the University of Michigan, Anne Arbor, name calculus and other math courses as subjects widely taught by adjuncts.

«We are demanding a true doctoral contract, a three - year job contract,» says its president, Morgane Gorria, an agronomist who has a Ph.D. in biology and currently works as a nontenured assistant professor in Le Havre University, northwestern France.

Koplik proposes that all Massachusetts state universities offer two options to newly hired faculty: the traditional tenure track or a nontenured, multiyear contract.

According to Koplik, the rapidly increasing role of distance learning, student demands for up - to - date and relevant information, and competition from nontraditional educators demand a fluid, and nontenured, university workforce.

I find few of my colleagues outright incompetent, but there are more than a few who wouldn't last ten seconds in a nontenured work environment.

In Virginia, for example, nontenured teachers are evaluated annually, whereas tenured teachers can expect a performance review every three years.

They can be used in a variety of classrooms and can be carried out by any kind of teacher (tenured and / or nontenured) The explanations are explicit and understandable.

Low - scoring principals focus more on formal, summative observations, providing limited, non-threatening feedback, primarily to nontenured teachers.

L.A. Unified officials have also stressed that administrators do not need to show cause when recommending dismissal for a nontenured teacher.

As a nontenured teacher, I am growing more and more concerned about helping educators protect themselves, their students, and their careers by CAREFULLY monitoring what they post online.

However, the district retained six nontenured teachers in positions for which Elliott was certified to teach.

The fund provides one award per year to a nontenured, ladder - track member of the UC Davis faculty — an up - and - coming faculty member who exhibits great promise as a creator and innovator in his or her research.

His job as associate director of the law school's Hawaii Innocence Project has evolved into a nontenured faculty position.