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[litdawg]

While I agree with most of the posters that "leverage" isn't the right word in this discussion, I also want to offer a bit of light in an otherwise dark tunnel. At my MA-comprehensive state university, consistent, long-term full-time lecturers HAVE successfully competed for tenure-track appointments. Now, these positions weren't obtained in order to *retain* the lecturer. Instead, the lecturer was deemed the best candidate for the job after a national search. And truly, the people I know who were hired in this manner are truly superb teachers, researchers, and colleagues. Everyone here would have cheered for them had they sought and obtained tenure-track employment elsewhere before institutional priorities and funding aligned for their to be a line in their field at our university. You will be well-served by preparing to leave your current position. You can always hold out hope that you'll only have a year away as your departure triggers a tenure-track search that you can apply to from a position of strength (employed elsewhere, but known and liked). Good luck!