<p>How about a few more statistics, just for fun?</p>
<p>As shown in Table 1, in any given year, about 100 to 180 faculty members enter provisional
status at Penn State. For the last nine entering cohorts – that is, those beginning in 1990 through
1998 – 55 percent of new entrants had received tenure by the end of their seventh year on the
tenure track</p>
<p>individual institutions are not identified alongside their
data in Table 2. However, it is permissible to note which universities are included: Florida,
Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Northwestern, Penn State, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, and
Wisconsin. In all cases, except for Penn State, the data are for a single (main) campus, and the
data are defined as in Table 1 unless otherwise noted. That is, the data are for a seven-year
period, starting from the time an individual first entered provisional status… this group of universities, for which the average rate is 53 percent</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.psu.edu/president/pia/planning_research/reports/AIR_Tenure_Flow_Paper_06.pdf[/url]”>http://www.psu.edu/president/pia/planning_research/reports/AIR_Tenure_Flow_Paper_06.pdf</a></p>
<p>Yale tenure rates: </p>
<p>*Humanities SocialSci PhysicalSci BiologicalSci Total
11% 15% 27% 57% 19% *</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.yale.edu/gateways/fas_tenure_report.pdf[/url]”>http://www.yale.edu/gateways/fas_tenure_report.pdf</a></p>