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School of Engineering Current System
Two Tracks: The non-tenure research track has ranks from research scholar to research professor.
Comments from the (former) Dean Don Giddens: "Tenure provides a good quality control mechanism. If [the process is] careful and rigorous, the quality of the people who pass through the system is very high." Without being forced to make the tough decision, he says, it would be all too easy to keep promoting someone, with the idea that you can always let that person go later. Go to top
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School of Medicine
Current System History Until the late 1950s, most departments had only one full professor--the department chairman. Many departments now have dozens. All faculty operate under the tenure clock, but time in rank can vary greatly. An assistant professor, for instance, can hold that rank for anywhere from one to seven years (and in approved cases, 10 years). Promotion to full professor takes from seven to 13 years, but in some cases longer.
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Nitze School of Advanced International
Studies
Current System
Faculty Composition
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School of Nursing
Current System The practice/education track, with ranks from instructor to full professor, does not offer tenure and has no mandatory time for progression through the ranks. This track is aimed at faculty whose focus is primarily clinical. Those in this track can shift to the research track should their focus change. The school also hires a number of clinical instructors under one-year term contracts.
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School of Public Health
Current System The non-tenure track has ranks of senior research associate through senior scientist. (There are also instructors and research associates, vestiges of pre-1995; see "History" below.) Faculty in the non-tenure track often have duties similar to those of their tenure-track colleagues. Many have open-ended contracts.
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School of Continuing Studies
Current System
History
Faculty Composition
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Peabody Institute
One place where tenure is not much of an issue is the Peabody
Institute: There's no tenure, no rank (everyone is simply a
"faculty member"), no long-term faculty contracts (each has a
one-year renewable deal)--and comparatively little discontent.
The majority of those on the Peabody faculty are performers, not
scholars; the standard criteria for tenure are thus not
applicable, notes faculty member Roger Brunyate, who says that
most of his colleagues are happy with the egalitarian nature of
the system.
There was a time when Peabody faculty could earn tenure--back
before the conservatory affiliated with Hopkins in 1977. In the
agreement that governed the affiliation, the university
recognized the tenure already held by 13 faculty. But a
moratorium on new appointments to tenure began in 1979 and
remains in effect today.
Peabody director Robert Sirota, who gave up a tenured position at
NYU to come to Peabody, says that while he sees no need for
tenure, he would favor instituting rank. Such a system would
help recognize superior performance, through promotion and pay
increases, and provide a better mechanism for evaluating faculty,
he believes. "I think Peabody needs a system of peer review. And
I stress peer review," Sirota says.
Music historian Susan Weiss, who says it's professionally
embarrassing for music scholars like herself to hold neither rank
nor tenure, is one person who would like to see tenure adopted
at Peabody. "I'm hoping we may be able to institute some better
conditions for those of us who feel it's important to have them,"
she says.
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