Tenure advocates are bracing for the possibility of new threats as lawmakers return to statehouses around the country.
In Kansas, Emporia State University this fall cut 33 faculty — most of them tenured — using an emergency pandemic measure that allowed universities to bypass policies on staff terminations to balance budgets."I may be fired for writing this""This is a purge," he said. He said all the fired professors were "Democrats or liberal in our thinking."
In Texas, university administrators are working behind the scenes to squash anticipated legislation that would target tenure, fearful it will hurt recruitment, said Jeff Blodgett, president of the Texas Conference of AAUP. In Louisiana, lawmakers set up a task force to study tenure with the Republican-backed resolution noting that students should be confident that courses are free of "political, ideological, religious, or antireligious indoctrination." Professors raised concerns until they learned the task force’s members were mostly tenure supporters.a policy that made it easier to remove tenured faculty who have had a negative performance review.
"It’s a nightmare," said Caprice Lawless, who wrote the "Adjunct Cookbook," replete with recipes that poorly compensated Ph.D.s can cobble together with food pantry staples.
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