Tenured

Definition

A permanent employment status in academia where professors become nearly impossible to fire and sometimes stop caring about teaching entirely.

Example Usage

Once she got tenure, she basically checked out and stopped updating her course materials from 2003.

Source: Academic employment and higher education terminology

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