tenure-track

adjective

ten·​ure-track ˈten-yər-ˌtrak 

also -ˌyu̇r-

: relating to or being a teaching position that may lead to a grant of tenure

Examples of tenure-track in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In June, about 70% of voting non-tenure-track faculty approved unionizing under United Faculty-UAW, which seeks to represent roughly 2,700 USC lecturers, researchers, clinicians, librarians and pharmacists. — Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2026

Epstein’s hiring for the role, on an interim, tenure-track basis, has sparked pushback and questions from FIU faculty. — Austin Horn, Miami Herald, 24 Aug. 2026

Harper arrived at Bates College in Maine in 2020 as an idealistic new PhD in comparative literature, grateful for the tenure-track job that promised him that rarest of prizes these days — a career in the humanities. — Gary Rosen, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2026

In 1970 people with tenure or tenure-track jobs constituted 73% of those teaching at colleges and universities. — Paul Osterman, The Conversation, 11 Aug. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1976, in the meaning defined above

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