All tenured faculty possess the highest degree in their field. The faculty consists of 142 tenured members. Besides her role as a tenured professor, she has lectured extensively. Academic positions can be tenured or non-tenured, with tenured positions being highly desirable. Princeton appointed him as a tenured Full Professor in 2003. Of the full-time faculty, 76% were tenured. He is now a tenured professor at NYU. In 2017, 17% of faculty were tenured. He was promoted to tenured professor in 2006. Xu was tenured as full professor in 1994. In 1971, he was tenured and promoted to Senior Lecturer. It featured teachers discussing the difficulty of firing a tenured teacher. Her personal quirks were widely perceived as a weakness by tenured bureaucrats. Education, longer tenured employment, and English proficiency proved to be influential factors in employee populations. Again, people in these positions are civil servants (thus, in this sense, tenured).