The Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs along with the Office of Planning, Assessment, and Institutional Research has recently published the Penn State Faculty Tenure Flow Annual Report for 2021. During the academic years spanning 2011 to 2014 a total of 333 faculty members entered provisional status for the first time. At the end of the seven-year period for each cohort, 202 had achieved tenure. Those not achieving tenure were not necessarily denied tenure. A few faculty members were still on the tenure path, and others left for multiple reasons.
Key findings include the following:
- Upper-level review decisions remain aligned with review committee recommendations.
- Fewer women than men enter the tenure pool each year, and a lower percentage are tenured. The proportion of tenure-line women has been growing slowly over the last decade and is now at 37%.
- International faculty are the second largest group of entrants next to White faculty. The proportion of White entrants is greater than the combined proportion of all other groups for the four years where reliable data exist.
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