Denial of tenure in the academic tenure-track system standardly leads to the termination of employment at the university, typically following a terminal year.
The claim describes a standard institutional rule of the academic tenure system: failing to achieve tenure results in the expiration of a probationary contract and subsequent termination or non-reappointment. Because this is a definitional and universally understood operational procedure of higher education employment rather than a contested scientific hypothesis, it is classified as common knowledge requiring no specific citation.