Definition of "tenure-track" [tenure-track]

• Of or relating to a teaching or research position at a college or university that can lead to a tenured position. (adjective)

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• "That 33% of Ph.D.s in non tenure-track positions is especially troubling, she says."
• "Of people who received Ph.D.s in the biological sciences five to six years ago, only 13% have tenure-track positions leading to a professorship, says Paula Stephan, who studies the economics of science at Georgia State University in Atlanta."
• "I have no guarantee of a tenure-track job, and any I'm likely to get will pay very little, hardly justifying living like a monk for my most vibrant years."