News: Threat to Tenure in Florida May Be Over
Despite the ominous final line in the article, I have it on good authority that this battle is over, at least for this year. We need to start planning for the next round. I have some ideas which I will share with you shortly, once my blood pressure fully returns to normal.

My Word: Tenure's a Mark of Achievement
As beautiful as the e-version is, with scroll bars and comments and 5 stars, it turns out that I'm an old-fashioned girl. When something meaningful and elegant needs to be said, I love it best in newsprint. That's why I'm framing this for my wall.
2 comments:
I hope that you can clarify the below:
Dr. Shugart says that only 1 out of four Valencia professors is tenured. Is this 25% of full-time regular faculty? Or is this 25% of the entire faculty which must include a large percentage - even a majority - of people who are not eligible for tenure (adjuncts, part-timers, annual contract instructors, multi-year contracts off the tenure-track)?
If the one in four is all faculty, do you know the percentage of full-time faculty that is tenured?
Thanks for the question.
There are 432 full-time faculty at Valencia. 278 of them have tenure. In addition, 83 of the remaining full-time faculty are on the tenure track. The remainder of full-time faculty are not in tenure-earning positions.
Dr. Shugart was referring to the full faculty body, which comprises approximately 1100 faculty members, over 400 of which are part-time faculty.
Looking at it that way, we are around 25% tenured.
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