Music Theory PhD Statistics?

saxlady
Mon, 26 Nov 2012 18:42:49 +0000

Just a quick note about tenured profs…assistant and associate profs can be considered tenured profs as well. Usually, one applies for tenure and promotion at the same time. I believe most people are assistant professors first, and then receive tenure when they are promoted to associate. However, it can happen when going from intructor or assistant (one is usually only given “instructor” status if they have not completed their doctorate…when they complete it, they then move to assistant).

However, there are exceptions - I have a friend who received tenure but was NOT promoted - really weird, if you ask me. They are good enough to be tenured but not good enough to be promoted? What’s up with that? That is really unusual, by the way.

Anyway, my main point is that in most situations, someone applying for full professorship was granted tenure quite awhile ago. Just didn’t want people to think that only full professors have tenure. Most associate professors will have tenure too. Full professorship is simply a promotion (i.e., more money).