system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
4th Year Phd...My Advisor Was Denied Tenure...

Hello everyone!

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I found out this morning that my advisor was denied tenure. His contract runs through May 2020, which is conceivably when I should graduate, but I have so many questions. I very firmly do NOT want to switch advisors, he's the most supportive professor I've ever met and has been helping me develop my research all 4 years of the program so he is very familiar with my work and is supportive despite my fairly controversial dissertation topic (I'm doing applied stats in a political science program). I'm his only student. I don't know what happens next...has anyone been through this? What happens now? I'm devastated.
gpt
You're about to have a very frank discussion with your advisor, specifically concerning your graduation timeline and any issues that may arise with your funding.

I'd expect him to try and find a "co-chair" for your committee in case anything comes up that causes him to leave before his contract is up (i.e. a new job) or you simply not being finished.