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<p>Is that what you guys think? That I’m overstating things?</p>
<p>…at MIT, on the other hand, only one-third of the men and women on the tenure track will be invited to make their permanent intellectual home at the Institute.</p>
<p>[Women</a> and Tenure at the Institute - MIT News Office](<a href=“http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/1999/trwomen.html]Women”>Women and Tenure at the Institute | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology)</p>
<p>But with a Harvard Ph.D. and three years of teaching experience, he is familiar with the culture of junior faculty. “It’s a research institute. The reality is that’s what they tenure on. It’s definitely demoralizing for junior faculty that there is a 70-80 percent chance that they will be fired,” he says. “Harvard defines its tenure process as getting the best in the world.</p>
<p>[The</a> Harvard Crimson :: Magazine :: Just the Tenured of Us](<a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=160925]The”>http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=160925)</p>
<p>*“Over the last 25 years, about 40 percent of the assistant professors who come to Stanford earn tenure… Etchemendy pointed to a lack of internal promotion within Harvard’s tenure system.</p>
<p>“Virtually no assistant professors hired by Harvard end up getting tenure,” he said. “So the only tenured faculty at Harvard are basically those who are hired from the outside as senior faculty. *</p>
<p>[Tenure</a> policy to remain despite debate at Harvard - The Stanford Daily Online](<a href=“http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2002/1/18/tenurePolicyToRemainDespiteDebateAtHarvard]Tenure”>http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2002/1/18/tenurePolicyToRemainDespiteDebateAtHarvard)</p>
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<p>Then what I recommend is that you don’t take my word for it. Since you go to Caltech, you should have extensive contact with the faculty. Go and talk to them, especially new assistant profs or profs who just recently got tenure and ask them how difficult and political the process was for them and for their colleagues at other schools.</p>