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> "I don't understand how you can be a professor and not be tenured" Sound like you are laboring under considerable misconceptions about the way academia works
by ThrowawayR2 6y ago
> "I don't understand how you can be a professor and not be tenured"
Sound like you are laboring under considerable misconceptions about the way academia works. To the best of my knowledge, there are no institutions that automatically grant tenure upon being hired as a professor, let alone a chair, which is considered prestigious.
There are various ranks of professorship and assistant professors (entry level) have to work their way up to earning tenure and it not rare to fail to do so; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_ranks_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_ranks_in_the_United_S...
- analog31 6y agoIndeed, getting hired with tenure, much less into a chair, is rarely or ever your first job. But if you already have tenure, then you are likely to be hired with tenure if you switch to another university. You don't have to start from scratch, otherwise nobody in their right mind would ever switch jobs. The grade level and tenure are always negotiable.