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adj. - Relating to a teacher who can be summarily dismissed.

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  • Ann, how many of your peers move to nontenured positions?
  • About 38 percent of the nation's instructors are now part-timers, a category of nontenured itinerants.
  • There are good P&T matters to report: More associate professors are talking about promotion, and we have more models for promotion in our nontenured full time ranks.
  • Well, Reality Check, what do you call it when younger/nontenured folk insistently direct an older female law professor to act more like their stereotype of an older...
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