During his life, Stevenson achieved little formal academic recognition, taking twenty years to get his doctorate and never obtaining tenure as a professor.

His "firing" from the English department at Colgate University was a routine failure to obtain tenure.

He obtained tenure as associate professor in 1986, and became full professor in 1990.

It is essential for obtaining tenure and as a building block for future research.

Moving to Cambridge University to work with Lawrence Bragg, obtaining tenure in 1951.

By 1978 he obtained tenure and became a full professor, and continued teaching at Harvard University for the next three years.

In 1987 he was promoted to associate professor and obtained tenure three years later in 1990.

Hooghe took up a tenure-track professorship at the University of Toronto in 1994 where she obtained tenure in 1999.

He obtained tenure there and became an associate professor in 2003.

Just before the tenure vote, the board unanimously decided that a teacher would obtain tenure if a majority of board members abstained.