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Well, that makes sense, no sane professor would give up tenure, so any new university job they take would obviously have to offer tenure from the start.
by afterburner 13y ago
Well, that makes sense, no sane professor would give up tenure, so any new university job they take would obviously have to offer tenure from the start.
- throwaway1979 13y agoMatt Welsh? He is quite sane and gave up tenure at Harvard to go work for Google.
- scott_s 13y agoafterburner meant professors are very unlikely to give up a tenured professor position for an untenured professor position. This is quite different from giving up a tenure professor position for a non-academic job.
- throwaway1979 13y agoMy point is never say never. A sane person might give up a tenured position for a variety of reasons.
- scott_s 13y agoIf you're saying that people leave tenured positions for non-professor positions, sure, happens all the time. But if you have tenure already, any professor position you get at another school will also be tenured. It would be an insult if a school offered a non-tenured position to an already tenured faculty.