<p>What is tenure and how does it apply to the faculty at maryland?</p>
<p>tenure is something u get after years of working somewhere. it means that ur spot is secured, basically. unless you murder the whole faculty. and i guess it applies cuz u can get tenure if u work at umd.</p>
<p>And when teachers get it they don’t have to work as hard. Atleast some teachers…</p>
<p>*…from [Wikipedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenure]Wikipedia[/url]...[/i”>Academic tenure - Wikipedia)…[/i</a>]</p>
<p>Tenure commonly refers to academic tenure systems, in which professors (at the university level)and in some jurisdictions schoolteachers (at primary or secondary school levels)are granted the right not to be dismissed without cause after an initial probationary period.</p>
<p>Tenure is not usually given immediately to new professors upon hiring. Instead, open jobs are designated eligible for tenure, or “tenure-track,” during the hiring process. Typically, a professor hired in a tenure-eligible position will then work for approximately five years before a formal decision is made on whether tenure will be granted.</p>
<p>The academic department will then vote to recommend the candidate for tenure based on the tenure-eligible professor’s record in teaching, research, and service over this initial period.</p>
<p>From Steven D. Krause’s blog (on the subject of those calling for the dismissal of Ward Churchill, the professor at U. of Colorado - Boulder with the unpopular views on 9/11):</p>
<p>“… the point of tenure is to protect the free exchange of ideas, especially when those ideas are controversial and they incite such powerful reactions. And thats because it is the exchange of ideas, controversial or not, that makes the whole concept of a university work.”</p>