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United States Department of Education statistics put the combined tenured/tenure-track rate at 56% for 1975, 46.8% for 1989, and 31.9% for 2005. That is to say, by the year 2005, 68.1% of US college teachers were neither tenured nor eligible for tenure; a full 48% of teachers that year were part-time employees.
11 years, 271 days F. Roosevelt [5] Tom Vilsack: Agriculture 2009–2017 2021–present First tenure: 7 years, 359 days Second tenure: 3 years, 283 days Total tenure: 11 years, 276 days Obama, Biden [6] Henry Morgenthau: Treasury 1934–1945 11 years, 202 days F. Roosevelt, Truman [7] William Wirt: Justice 1817–1829 11 years, 112 days
Among the current members of the court, Clarence Thomas's tenure of 12,105 days (33 years, 51 days) [B] is the longest, while Ketanji Brown Jackson's 897 days (2 years, 166 days) [B] is the shortest. The table below ranks all United States Supreme Court justices by time in office .
The 90th Congress was notable because for a period of 10 days (December 24, 1968 – January 3, 1969), it contained within the Senate, all 10 of what was at one point the top 10 longest-serving senators in history (Byrd, Inouye, Thurmond, Kennedy, Hayden, Stennis, Stevens, Hollings, Russell Jr., and Long) until January 7, 2013, when Patrick Leahy surpassed Russell B. Long as the 10th longest ...
Maine Legislature: four two-year terms for both houses (eight years). No limit on total number of terms. Michigan Legislature: twelve years combined in either chamber of the legislature. [87] Prior to the 2022 election, the limits were three two-year terms for House members (six years) and two four-year terms for Senate members (eight years).
Defenders of tenure, like Ellen Schrecker and Aeon J. Skoble, generally acknowledge flaws in how tenure approvals are currently run and problems in how tenured professors might use their time, security, and power; however, as Skoble puts it, the "downsides are either not as bad as claimed, or [are] costs outweighed by the benefits"—and he ...
The length of a full four-year presidential term of office usually amounts to 1,461 days (three common years of 365 days plus one leap year of 366 days). If the last day is included, all numbers would be one day more, except Grover Cleveland would have two more days, as he served two non-consecutive terms.
In two states, tenure is awarded after only one year of teaching during the probation period. Washington DC does not require a set time for awarding tenure. [ 10 ] Supporters of this notion feel that one or two years is too short a time to tell if a teacher is having a positive effect on their students.