. >> now owned by rowland littlefield? >> yes. >> define the word -- not define it. but explain how someone gets tenure and what is it. >> so when you go to a university you could be offered something called a tenured-track position. about, i don't know, maybe 40 to 50% of academic positions out there are either tenure or tenure-track now. so if you are on the tenure-track, what happens is when you arrive at the university they start a clock and the clock goes for about seven years although it gets lengthened, at the university of michigan they lengthened it to ten years. and during that time you have to show why the university should keep you on permanently. and what you do during that time, the university -- most claim that three things matter. what matters is your publicication record, your teaching record, and your service to the university. so serving on a variety of committees. they call this the three-legged stool of academia. so during that time, which by the way coin sides with a lot of other things going on in your life. people pointed out, for instance, th