Gov. Kevin Stitt, a Republican, directed the state’s two-dozen regional universities and community colleges to phase out the ...

Executive Order 2026-06 orders tenure reforms at public colleges, linking contracts to performance and student outcomes.

Tennessee lawmakers have introduced a bill that could ban universities from granting new tenure to professors. Is getting ...

Tennessee lawmakers consider major changes to tenure protections for professors. The legislation appears to be in response to college personnel posting about the death of activist Charlie Kirk.

Tennessee is the latest state to abandon efforts to dismantle tenure, the prevailing American standard for university professors.

Tennessee’s House Higher Ed Subcommittee chair has withdrawn his bill to end tenure in public universities after saying he “stumbled into a little bit of the history” and “got a little deeper than I ...

Tennessee legislators are considering abolishing tenure in the state’s higher education institutions, as outlined in HB2581.

Tennessee, Kansas, Kentucky and Oklahoma are ramping up attempts to end or gut faculty tenure. Those attempts could change the faculty tenure landscape significantly.

The removal of these protections will directly undermine educational quality, weaken faculty recruitment and retention, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...