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He wasn't an adjunct. Some universities (or schools within universities) do five year contracts now as an alternative approach to tenure.
by etrevino 7y ago
He wasn't an adjunct. Some universities (or schools within universities) do five year contracts now as an alternative approach to tenure.
- richardhod 7y agoPrecisely this. I find it appalling that an associate professor was not given tenure, because that is normally a tenured position, particularly since he'd been there 20 years
- krull10 7y agoI think he was an Associate Professor of the Practice -- it's not a tenured position, but more a longer-term teaching-type appointment. It generally offers more job security and benefits than an adjunct might receive, but at many universities such a position is not (and was never) on a tenure-track line.
- WesternStar 7y agoI think this is a difference of degree but not kind. Duke still has tenured faculty. He is clearly not afforded the rights of tenured faculty. For this matter functionally he's an adjunct because that's how they ruled on him.