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nontenured

[non-ten-yerd]

adjective

Education.
  1. not having tenure.



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Concytec officials have asked universities to clarify their relationships with the remaining 70 registered researchers, many of whom appear to be nontenured lecturers or former students from other nations.

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Although the Chapel Hill journalism school recommended that Ms. Hannah-Jones, who is Black, be offered a tenured professorship, the university, reportedly after pressure by a powerful donor, instead offered her a nontenured job.

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More than 600 hourly employees are eligible to affiliate with the Maine Service Employees Association, part of the Service Employees International Union, including nontenured or tenure-track faculty and college support staff, the newspaper reported.

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He left Harvard in 2002 after a public fight with the university’s president at the time, but returned to the institution in a nontenured position in 2017.

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That forces nontenured people to work at two or more colleges, resulting in long days and miserable conditions.

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