Thanks for the info. I know in my Fathers time, if you had
tenure and wanted to go to another University and was
accepted, you were granted tenure immediately.
That’s still true, for a very logical reason: if you already have tenure and are going to a different university, it’s because they want you pretty badly. Schools like to hire the “stars” away from other schools. But no one is going to give up tenure to go elsewhere and go through the normal tenuring process—what if, after 6 years, you are denied, when you once had tenure elsewhere? So basically, they hire at senior level either with automatic tenure or with the promise of mostly pro forma tenure within a year. (Often the “star” takes a leave of absence from his tenured position, so that, if for some reason, the new place doesn’t like him or he doesn’t like it, he can return to his tenured position.)