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Show 476 65 leading universities in the country including such state universities as: California, Colorado, Kansas, Michigan» ‘ Minnesota, Oregon, Texas and Washington, and such privately endowed institutions as. Chicago, Columbia, Denver, Johns Hopkins, M Io'i‘o, Princeton and Yaleo - Sizctyafive institutions replied to our letter with the following information provided: 28 institutions give Professors tenure upon ape pointment 19 institutions give Associate Professors tenure . upon appointment No institutions give either Assistant Professors " or Instructors tenure upon appointment 13 institutions reported that they had no formal I regulations regarding tenure ' ~ Many further stated that they did not consider their problem of tenure of sufficient inner-.' tance to set up formal regulations. Very few institutions reported giving tenure after 7 years service 9' institutions give full Professon tenure after 3 yrs service 11 institutions give Associate Professors tenure after 3 yrs service ll. institution's give Assistant Professors tenure after three years service 3 of the 65 institutions give Instructors tenure after three years service All of the institutions reporting indicated , _ that lecturers are not given team at any timeo , Since the University of Utah does not under . its present regulations give tenure to Instructors, it seemed pertinent to _ ask whether Instructors were given Leaves of Absenceo Sixteen of the sixty-Ii re institutions reporting said that they give instructors leaves of absence ‘ but usually without pay. \ Since we are developing a graduate program and attempting. to attract graduate students, it seems to as highly desirable to keep our faculty at the rank of instructor as fluid as possible; and I an inclined to reconnnend " that we discontinue giving Leaves of Absence to Instructorso I am definitely opposed to giving tenure to Instructors. |
