Tennessee's HB 2194, set for the governor's decision, sparks debate as educators claim it could weaken tenure protections, ...

Blake Benson, chair of the Kansas Board of Regents, speaks at a board event on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025. Regent Alysia Johnston, chair of the Academic Affairs Standing Committee, is pictured to the ...

Chancellor Donde Plowman pushed these boundaries when she suspended and initiated the firing process against Tamar Shirinian, who was on track to receive tenure, after the assistant professor of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Of all the things a university professor can achieve in their career, few are as desirable as academic tenure. Academic tenure is ...

Gov. Kevin Stitt sent shockwaves through Oklahoma’s higher education academic community earlier this year when he abruptly ...

Professors, students, alumni, journalists, professional athletes, artists and and political activists are outraged over Nikole Hannah-Jones not receiving tenure with her appointment to UNC-Chapel Hill ...

One of the most high-profile new laws Texas passed last year was Senate Bill 3, a ban on teaching “critical race theory” in grades K-12, which went into effect in December. The measure was met with ...

Teacher tenure is not the cause of poor student achievement, and trying to "reform" it will do nothing to improve educational outcomes for the students who most need our help. Indeed, they will suffer ...

South Carolina’s House of Representatives will consider whether it will effectively do away with tenure at colleges and universities throughout the state. The Canceling Professor Tenure Act has the ...

Eighty years after the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) stated the basic principles and policies of faculty tenure, the concept remains one of higher education’s most charged ...