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When I first considered becoming a college professor, tenure was not an attraction or even an issue. I was drawn to the professi
When I first considered becoming a college professor, tenure was not an attraction or even an issue. I was drawn to the professi
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2022-06-19
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When I first considered becoming a college professor, tenure was not an attraction or even an issue. I was drawn to the profession by the work and the environment. Even after earning a Ph. D., spending time working in Washington D.C., and finally getting my first teaching job in public administration, I was not particularly concerned with tenure. I now work at a regional institution that requires an attainable balance between teaching, research, and service. I have always been a hard worker and see no reason to stop.
But my vision of tenure has changed,
I do not want to always be the same kind of professor I am now
. Now, I am working on articles, course preparations, learning the details of the curriculum so I can advise students, and building institutional knowledge by serving on university committees. Today, my productivity is high and I focus on
"collecting beans"
, tomorrow, I would like to focus on quality.
Whether tenure can give me the opportunity to focus on quality is questionable, but the idea of longevity is a concept that seems to have broad acceptance in most professions. My friends who became lawyers and accountants spend their time talking about becoming partners; medical doctors talk about establishing a practice; civil servants are protected by the merit system. The professionals in these fields serve a probationary period (试用期) and demonstrate competence to attain a certain level of freedom in their fields. After that, we expect that their professionalism can be used to serve society.
Are college professors and universities different from lawyers, law firms, and the American Bar Association or doctors, practices, and the American Medical Association? The answer is both yes and no. Rarely does one hear about a professor being brought to court for malpractice. Still, the college professors I know work long hours, serve arduous, poorly-paid probationary periods, are dedicated to their students and their fields and do not want to work in another profession after they have arrived in this one. Thus tenure is often seen as the reward for years of struggle. Tenure, therefore, has become something important to me, specifically as a way to become firmly established in my profession.
What does "tenure" probably mean in the passage?
选项
A、The reward to a lawyer or an accountant for his or her hard work.
B、The right to keep one’s job at a university until retirement.
C、The chance of being promoted to a higher administrative position.
D、The possibility of establishing one’s own practice after a probationary period.
答案
B
解析
词义理解题。联系上下文并结合第二段第一句可知“tenure”应该是指“长期聘用”。故选B。
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